Description
"Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."
New York Times
About the Author
Edmund White is the author of more than twenty books, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, My Lives, City Boy, and Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris. He lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Princeton University.