Book description
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies
Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot
sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight
into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of
Brazil's wild west.... John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington,
Pennsylvania. John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, was
published in 1959. It was followed by Rabbit, Run, Rabbit is Rich (1981)
and Rabbit at Rest (1990). Other novels by John Updike include Marry Me,
The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film,
Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil, In the Beauty of the Lilies
and Toward the End of Time.
