{"product_id":"vertiginous-life-joo-de-rio-9780998543604","title":"Vertiginous Life: Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eRio de Janeiro in 1911 was a venerable city in a new republic just a generation old. The people of Rio felt as new as the new century. A new culture of immigration and education blossomed. New technologies of machinery--Automobiles  Airplanes --advanced with blinding speed. Feminism  Advertisement  Democracy  Global travel  New journalism  Tea, slander, migrant camps, uppity servants  Life in Rio de Janeiro was dizzying. Vertiginous. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the giddy swirl of modernity, literary journalist Jo o do Rio aimed his critical eye at a great city and society in transformation. His collection of articles, Vida Vertiginosa, is presented here for the first time in the English language. It ranks with his Religions in Rio as a classic of Brazilian nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo o do Rio was a journalist way ahead of his time. A man of the streets, the people, the bars and restaurants, sui generis, dapper and openly gay, he approached reportage with a style all his own. He saw what others did not see, and he wrote about it with inimitable linguistic flare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Lessa-Schmidt's brilliant translation captures Jo o do Rio's unique style of disregarding grammar to present the essence of a scene. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jo縊 de Rio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998543608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998543604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New London Librarium\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d","brand":"Jo縊 de Rio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055951737087,"sku":"9780998543604","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6a40136-e0d6-4150-abb3-c4415cac1876.jpg?v=1685038711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vertiginous-life-joo-de-rio-9780998543604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}