Mother and son
a Brazilian tale.
[1st American ed.]
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Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5534535M
- OCLC Control Number585224
- OCLC Control Numbermotherson0000unse_t7g9
- Library of Congress Control Number67011135
- LibraryThing1941405
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.F8988 Mo
Description
The venue [of this volume]--always the same for Freyre--is Recife [a city in Brazil], and the scant tale is deeply set in the befores and afters of 1888-1889 when Brazil went through the eruption of emancipation and the overthrow of monarchy for republic. A note arrives at Freyre's door summoning him to the home of a wellborn widow who is not only an unknown distant relative but the exact prototype of the widow who is to figure in the novel that the author is about to write. Mirabile dictu, the parallels go on, and amazed the author releases himself from his novelist's vows and again becomes the sociological biographer.... This book--it hardly is a novel--isn't for everyone, but in its own private way it reveals much of fin de siecle Brazil when the sugar plantation owners reigned in Pernambuco and experience was the prerogative of the wealthy bucks and the impoverished blacks. --Kirkus Reviews, 4/17/1967.
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