Status
Available
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Genres
Collection
Publication
Bard / Avon Books (1988), Paperback, 372 pages
Description
A big, brawling novel of waterfront life in Bahia, packed with cardsharpers, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and homeless Don Juans and Messalinas. It tells three interlinked and cumulating stories - about a marriage, a christening and a siege.The things that happen in Shepherds of the Night are bound to happen once the cleverest of the Don Juans marries an out-of-town prostitute and tires of her; once an unmarried mother insists on a church christening for her fatherless child; and once a group of homeless Bahians erect their shacks on private property.
Subjects
Awards
Notable Books List (1967)
Language
Original publication date
1964
1980
Physical description
372 p.; 7.9 inches
ISBN
0380754711 / 9780380754717
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