Brazil
by Updike, John, 1932-2009
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About This Item
NY, Knopf, 1994. Book club edition. Hard Cover. 260 p. "Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-Sixties to the late Eighties, Brazil surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence." Stock#23771. Fine / dj fine.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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On May 1 2011, Enoch said:
Worth the read. Well written. Don't want to give the plot away.
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- Title
- Brazil
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- Updike, John, 1932-2009
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- Hard Cover
- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY, Knopf, 1994. Book club edition
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