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The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray (Penguin Classics)
The Double Death of Quincas WaterBray - Penguin Classics Author:Jorge Amado 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 de... more »cade 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.« less
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