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The life and death of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Title: The life and death of Carolina Maria de Jesus / Robert M. Levine and José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy.
Author: Levine, Robert M.
Publication: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	F2537.J47 L48 1995	Off-site

Additional Authors

Meihy, José Carlos Sebe Bom, 1943-

Description

xiv, 162 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

In the dozen years Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) lived in a Sao Paulo, Brazil, shanty slum, she survived by rummaging for junk. She also kept a diary of her abject poverty. Black, illegitimate, and poor, she suddenly became at age forty-six Brazil's best-selling author when a book drawn from her diaries appeared in 1960. An English translation, Child of the Dark, was published in 1962 and sold over 300,000 paperback copies in the United States in a decade.
Newsweek heralded her book "a desperate, terrifying outcry from the slums of Sao Paulo ... one of the most astonishing documents of the lower depths ever printed." Robert Levine assigned Child of the Dark in his classes for nearly thirty years, and frequently students asked what became of Carolina. This book provides startling answers to that recurring question.

Series Statement

Diálogos

Uniform Title

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

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Contents

From the favela to the moon -- Cinderella scorned -- Carolina's children -- Carolina's legacy.

LCCN

95004352

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries