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The double death of Quincas Water-Bray / Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Rivka Galchen.

Title
The double death of Quincas Water-Bray / Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Rivka Galchen.
Author
Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Publication
New York : Penguin Books, 2012.

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Book/TextRequest in advance PQ9697.A647 M613 2012Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Rabassa, Gregory.
  • Rabassa, Gregory
  • Galchen, Rivka
Description
xiv, 70 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea"--
Series Statement
Penguin classics
Uniform Title
  • Morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua. English
  • Penguin classics.
Alternative Title
Morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua.
Subject
  • FICTION / Humorous
  • FICTION / Classics
  • Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction
  • Dead > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Humorous fiction
  • Humorous fiction.
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9780143106364 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2012022838
OCLC
  • 779263657
  • SCSB-12875473
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library