Condition: Acceptable. Former library book. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
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Blurb: “RIO. 1940. Full of ambition and hot air, an arrogant, pompous, and cruel Nazi colonel was conspiring to occupy a vacant chair in the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Add to this outrage, this rank defilement, the fact that he wanted the very seat recently vacated by celebrated poet Antonio Bruno, a lover of many women and one city, Paris, whose fall to the Germans had killed him as decisively as a Fascist bullet in the heart.
But what force on earth could keep the colonel's fat bottom from resting on a velvet seat of the Immortal Forty? It would take an audacious plan spawned by the cunning minds of two ageing academicians... the irresistible sexuality of the women Bruno had loved... and a will to win against the odds-in Jorge Amado's wonderful, high-spirited tale full of satire and broad humor that reaches back through the mock-heroic tradition to carry a message of hope and courage for the battles of today.”