Brazil

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About John Updike

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal.

Selected Works by John Updike

• Brazil
• The Afterlife and Other Stories
• Americana
• Assorted Prose of Updike
• Bech at Bay
• Bech Is Back
• Centaur
• Collected Poems
• The Coup
• Couples
• Gertrude and Claudius
• Golf Dreams
• Hugging the Shore
• In the Beauty of the Lilies
• Licks of Love
• Marry Me
• Memories of the Ford Administration
• Midpoint and Other Poems
• A Month of Sundays
• More Matter
• Music School
• Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
• Poorhouse Fair
• Problems and Other Stories
• Rabbit At Rest
• Rabbit Is Rich
• Rabbit Redux
• Rabbit Run
• Roger's Version
• Self-consciousness
• Telephone Poles
• Toward the End of Time
• The Witches of Eastwick

From the Publisher

They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west — unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . . Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.