Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon
by Amado, Jorge
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Anaheim, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1962. Copyright page states. (Pub. Sept. 12, 1962; 1st & 2nd print. before pub.; 3rd print., Sept. 1962; Fourth printing, 1962, ) (This is therefore 4th printing.) This is Borzoi book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, inc. Book Condition: Very Good. light brown cloth wrapped boards. Round blindstamped tree with initial design on front cover. Spine has bright gilt designs and letters. Front and back hinges well connected. Clean, bright endsheets and 425 tightly bound pages, no writing, no marks. Page edges lightly tanned, inside bright. Dust Jacket: poor due to tanning, chips, small pieces missing, taped repairs. Top corner of front white flap clipped. 8/62 on bottom front flap. Interior Text Body is bright and has no inscription, no foxing, and no torn pages, a nice reading copy.. Book Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and William L. Grossman. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.
Synopsis
Jorge Amado—novelist, journalist, lawyer—was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was nineteen. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the thirties and forties would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels—Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most reknowned writers of the Latin American boom of the sixties, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Dona Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.
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- Bookseller
- BookTown USA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8003835
- Title
- Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon
- Author
- Amado, Jorge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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