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A work about the voices, clashes, and traffic of Sao Paulo, a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. It dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism.

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"A forceful and sensitive translation, the story follows the struggles of three female workers in Sao Paulo. . . . Through it all these strong women survive in a world where sharing popcorn with a lover is ultimately more real than all the talk of triumph of the proletariat."—Publishers Weekly

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    A Paperback / softback by Patricia Galvao (Pagu), Elizabeth Jackson, K. David Jackson

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1993
      ISBN13: 9780803270411, 978-0803270411
      ISBN10: 0803270410

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A work about the voices, clashes, and traffic of Sao Paulo, a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. It dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism.

      Trade Review
      "A forceful and sensitive translation, the story follows the struggles of three female workers in Sao Paulo. . . . Through it all these strong women survive in a world where sharing popcorn with a lover is ultimately more real than all the talk of triumph of the proletariat."—Publishers Weekly

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