PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY

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English
Vintage Books
30 July 1991
For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba--the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat--and to take part in Rio's renowned carnivale parade.

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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   196g
ISBN:   9780679732563
ISBN 10:   067973256X
Series:   Vintage Departures
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.

Reviews for Samba

"""May well be the single best book ever written about the central place of music in the life of the Third World.""--Washington Post Book World"


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