After Life: An Ethnographic Novel
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Bruna Ver ssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds. Hecht had originally intended to write a biography of Ver ssimo. But with interviews ultimately...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822337886
ISBN13:9780822337881
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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