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The great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece--published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birthHere 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 unsavory friends show up with a bottle of rum, they whisk him along on a postmortem journey to enjoy one last party--his own wake.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Double Death Of Quincas Water-Bray
• Author: Jorge Amado, Gregory Rabassa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780143106364
• ISBN: 0143106368
• ID: 04510179
• Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP
• Weight: 86 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 2012

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