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The third bank of the river, and other stories. / Translated from the Portuguese, with an introd., by Barbara Shelby.
Van Pelt Library PQ9697.R76 P75 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosa, João Guimarães, 1908-1967.
- Standardized Title:
- Primeiras estórias. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Brazilian.
- Manners and customs.
- Brazil--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Short stories, Brazilian--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 238 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1968.
- Contents:
- The thin edge of happiness.
- Tantarum, my boss.
- Substance.
- Much ado.
- A woman of good works.
- The aldacious navigator.
- Honeymoons.
- A young man, gleaming, white.
- The horse that drank beer.
- Nothingness and the human.
- Condition.
- The mirror.
- Cause and effect.
- My friend and the fatalist.
- No man, no woman.
- Hocus psychocus.
- The third bank of the river.
- The Dagobé brothers.
- The girl from beyond.
- Sorôco, his mother, his daughter.
- Notorious.
- Treetops.
- Notes:
- Translation of Primeiras estórias.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 437389
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