Barren lives = Vidas s�ecas

Ramos, Graciliano 1892-1953 (Author). Dimmick, Ralph Edward. (Added Author). Umlauf, Charles, 1911-1994 (illustrator.).

Summary: A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature. -- Back cover.

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ISBN: 9780292701335
ISBN: 0292701330
ISBN: 9780292748330
ISBN: 0292748337
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations
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Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999, �1965.

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