In the dream-Brazil of John Updike\'s imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love.
John Updike died in January 2009..
In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal.
From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
About the Author: John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932.
Spanning twenty-two years, from the sixties through the eighties, Brazil surprises with its celebration of passion, loyalty, romance, and New World innocence.
Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fortune afflict them, yet this latter-day Tristan and Iseult cling to the faith that each is the other\'s fate for life.
When Trist o Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach, their flight from family and into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil\'s phantasmagoric western frontier.
In the dream-Brazil of John Updike\'s imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love
