In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in ...
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In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - missing, the reader is thrust into the middle of an intricate puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnverving, misleading and tragic episodes.
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Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $5.00, fair condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books.
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Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Text in Portuguese, English. Trade paperback (US). 223 p. Audience: General/trade. You are bidding on the softcover stated Avon First English Edition. Other than a couple a clipped front cardholder flyleaf (ex lib) and slight discoloration, both the mylar-covered cover and the book are in good reading condition---no rips, tears, etc---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So bid soon for this magnificent, impossible-to-find LITERARY COLLECTIBLE.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $6.73, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $6.73, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books.
Add this copy of The Celebration (English and Portuguese Edition) to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by Robert Harper Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hyattsville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books / Bard.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $9.48, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books.
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Good; Collectible. The softcover stated Avon Edition--FIRST PUBLICATION IN ENGLISH. Other than a clipped front cardholder title page (ex libris), a hardly noticeable stain throughout and the barest hint of wrinkling to the pages, the mylar-covered book is in good reading condition. There are no rips, tears, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $13.50, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books.
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New York. 1982. January 1982. Avon/Bard. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 038078808x. Paperback Original. Translated from the Portuguese by Thomas Colchie. 223 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-THE TRIUMPH OF CENSORSHIP. In one of the most controversial novels to emerge from modern Brazil, Ivan Angelo tells of the strange reality of Latin America as revealed by the omissions of censorship. The time is the evening of March 30th, 1970, when a group of wealthy people gather for a birthday celebration. Simultaneously a group of migrant workers is halted from settling in the town by the police. In time the two groups become involved with each other, and the police begin their investigation, their degradation, and their torture of the workers and party-goers. If is only in the long final chapter, ‘After the Celebration, ' that the police and the reader are able to construct the horrifying climax. Upon its publication in 1976, Ivan Angelo said, ‘I hope to make the reader an accomplice not only in shaping the actual text, but in determining ifs significance, since my intention has been to provide wider participation in the terrible problems we face at the moment, in Brazil. ' inventory #13313.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon.
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Near Fine. First Bard printing, originally published in Brazil as a Fiesta copyright, 1976. Translated by Thomas Colchie. Mass market paperback. Near fine with typical age-toning.
Add this copy of The Celebration to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by AVON. NY 1982.
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Fine. First American Edition. A Paperback Original. (No Hardcover Ed. ) Very close to fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Mild corner crease at head of rear cover. Paper lightly age darkened as always)
Add this copy of The Celebration (English and Portuguese Edition) to cart. $37.02, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Avon Books / Bard.