To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain--a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diamonds; prostitutes and pimps are queens and kings, and dancing skill is more prized than power.
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To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain--a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diamonds; prostitutes and pimps are queens and kings, and dancing skill is more prized than power.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 244 p. Audience: General/trade. Stated first edition. Fine/like new copy in fine/like new dust jacket with protective cover.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Foxing on page edges, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. The author's enthralling account of her time with the Mangueira samba school in Brazil.
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