Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Name: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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ISBN: 9780918273826

ISBN-10: 091827382X

ISBN-13: 9780918273826

Edition: 1990

Authors: Karen Tei Yamashita

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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough to be frightening. In the Author's Note," Karen Tei Yamashita writes that her book is like a Brazilian soap opera called a novela: "the novela's story is completely changeable according to the whims of the public psyche and approval, although most likely, the unhappy find happiness; the bad are punished; true love reigns; a popular actor is saved from death ... an idyll striking innocence, boundless nostalgia and terrible ruthlessness." The stage is a vast, mysterious field of…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 7/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English