TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea"--
AU  - Amado, Jorge,
AU  - Rabassa, Gregory.
CN  - PQ9697.A647
CN  - PQ9697.A647
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2012.
ET  - New translation
ID  - 455547
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Dead
LA  - eng
N2  - "Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea"--
PB  - Penguin Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2012.
SN  - 9780143106364 (pbk.)
SN  - 0143106368 (pbk.)
T1  - The double death of Quincas Water-Bray /
TI  - The double death of Quincas Water-Bray /
ER  -