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050	0	0	_aPQ9697.A647 _bT7413 1988
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC AMA
100	1		_aAmado, Jorge, 1912-2001
240	1	0	_aTocaia Grande _l. English
245	1	0	_aShow down _c/ Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa
260			_aToronto ; _aNew York _b: Bantam Books _c, 1988.
300			_a422 p. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aRunning title: Showdown.
500			_aTranslation of: Tocaia Grande.
520			_aIn this 21st novel by Brazil's master storyteller, the central character is a town. Already known to followers of Amado's fiction, Tocaia Grande is here depicted in the days before its elevation to county seat and its change of name to Irisopolis. These are the rawer days of its original settlement some 20 years after the Brazilian emancipation of slaves when it was nothing more than a dump with a store and a cluster of fugitives, whores, and stragglers. It's ``every man for himself'' in this tropical hinterland whose candidacy as a real town comes only with the arrival of one bona fide family consisting almost miraculously of husband, wife, and children.
700	1		_aRabassa, Gregory
740	0		_aShowdown
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