The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray |
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| Author:
| Amado, Jorge |
| Translator:
| Rabassa, Gregory |
| Introduction by:
| Galchen, Rivka |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-310636-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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The great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece-published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birth. Here is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, king of the Bahia lowlife and a 'champion drunk.' After a decade of revelry among bums, pimps, and prostitutes, he drops dead, and his prim family gathers for a proper burial. But when Quincas's...
More DescriptionThe great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece-published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birth. Here is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, king of the Bahia lowlife and a 'champion drunk.' After a decade of revelry among bums, pimps, and prostitutes, he drops dead, and his prim family gathers for a proper burial. But when Quincas's unsavoury friends show up with a bottle of rum, they whisk him along on a post-mortem journey to enjoy one last party-his own wake. 'Raucous . . . rowdy . . . outradeous!' The New York Times 'Swift, funny, and occasionally even slapstick.' Rivka Galchen, from the Introduction