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    Building Barbecues (Mini Workbook Series)
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    The Ultimate Home Design Sourcebook
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    The Swag and Tail Design Pattern Book
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    Stamp Your Style on Borders, Friezes and Walls
Yellow Sofa (New Directions Classics)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Taut writing - a story of infidelity
  • I enjoyed this for the same reasons I like Nabakov.
  • De Quieros: A Final Post Script
 Yellow Sofa (New Directions Classics)
Eca De Queiros , Eca De Queiroz , and John Vetch
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
PortuguesePortuguese | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0811213390

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Taut writing - a story of infidelity.......2000-06-03

I was completely unaware of Eca De Queiros prior to reading this book. He is an excellent writer - although this is a slim volume it successfully moves it characters through a number of changes and emotions as a marriage unravels in infidelity. The portrayal of the emotions, their "wallop", will remain with you long after you've finished the novel and the plot line is forgotten - in this sense, those who read for the quality of the writing may enjoy this book more than those who read for action and plot.

4 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this for the same reasons I like Nabakov........1999-07-07

This is the first of Eca de Queiros that I have read. His style is economical, his writing seems almost effortless. Likewise, his selection of details packs meaning. This is not a perfect book, but highly enjoyable in the way that fine improvisation satisfies.

4 out of 5 stars De Quieros: A Final Post Script.......1999-02-14

A terse novel published posthumously 25 years after the author's death. While not his best work, it does seem to capture a recurrent theme in many of his works -- the rejection of Victorian-era morality and propriety. De Quieros probes the subjects of marital infidelity, betrayl, honor, forgiveness and reconciliation in 112 pages! This is an enjoyable, quick primer to De Quieros. By all means pick this up and follow it with The Illustrious House of Ramires and/or The Relic...Happy Reading.
Yellow Sofa and Three Portraits (Aspects of Portugal)
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Yellow Sofa and Three Portraits (Aspects of Portugal)
    Eca de Queiros
    Manufacturer: Carcanet Press Ltd.
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

    19th Century19th Century | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    PortuguesePortuguese | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    SpanishSpanish | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    Spanish & PortugueseSpanish & Portuguese | Classics | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    Spanish & PortugueseSpanish & Portuguese | European | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    ASIN: 1857540344

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