Samba by Guillermoprieto, Alma

Samba (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679732563)

Vendor: Alma Guillermoprieto
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Samba by Guillermoprieto, Alma

Samba

$20.00
Samba by Guillermoprieto, Alma

Samba

$20.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain--a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diamonds; prostitutes and pimps are queens and kings, and dancing skill is more prized than power.

Author: Alma Guillermoprieto
ISBN-10: 067973256X
ISBN-13: 9780679732563
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/30/1991
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/12/1991
By Alma Guillermoprieto
By Alma Guillermoprieto
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Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.

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