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9780393246025
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393246027
ISBN-13
9780393246025
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204112962

Product Key Features

Book Title
Backlands : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Biographical, Historical, Action & Adventure
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Author
Victoria Shorr
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Trade
LCCN
2014-044314
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An exciting, extraordinary tale of a legendary Brazilian outlaw and his woman (the Robin Hood and Maid Marian of the badlands) told in a style as dashing and vivid as the romantic myth that surrounds them. Victoria Shorr writes with droll, lyrical, pithy precision as well as a sure sense of the deep mystery of her characters and the exotic landscape they inhabit., Backlands is a wonderful novel--epic and moving, electric and evocative--written in a voice so persuasive and precise that I can't get it out of my head. A tremendous book., Shorr has really found the voice to tell the story. Part Zane Gray, part Leslie Blanche, part literatura do cordel with a little Hemingway thrown in for good measure., Tender, almost languid, but deeply satisfyingly paced, Backlands is less a tale of adventure than an exploration of love and loyalty, of the relationship between a people and their land., Shorr's lyrical exploration of these Brazilian folk heroes is as much a study of love as of the shifting emotional terrain of an entire country., Shorr astutely and lyrically illuminates the mythological, psychological, and social dimensions of the bandit lovers' lives, portraying them both as poignantly complex and besieged individuals and archetypal warriors ardently defending wildness in all its embodiments.
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23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil--a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão--Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired--and feared--by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"--this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple--still celebrated folk heroes--would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião's "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time., Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil--a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão -- Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired--and feared--by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"--this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple--still celebrated folk heroes--would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião's "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time., In this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback., Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil--a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertao -- Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired--and feared--by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampiao. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampiao proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampiao had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"--this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampiao, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple--still celebrated folk heroes--would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampiao's "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.H667B33 2015

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