Jorge Amado: Boundless love and death in Bahia From: Americas | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Wyels, Joyce Gregory | Copyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Jan/Feb 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Creating some of the most memorable characters in modern literature, this world-renowned author captured the heart and soul of his native Brazilian state

Boundless Love and Death in Bahia

BULLETINS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS LAST YEAR CHRONICLED JORGE AMADO'S deteriorating health, his admittance to Alianca Hospital in Salvador, and his subsequent release last July. Plans were under way for Amado's eighty-ninth birthday celebration on August 10 when the news came: E mono lo scritto...

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	Obituary: Jorge Amado.(Obituaries) The Independent (London, England) ; SAVE YOUR coffin for the next round/ you won't catch me in a hole in the ground. So says Quincas, one of the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's irrepressible heroes; and it is hard to imagine that Quincas's creator left this life any more willingly. By the time he died, Amado had over 20 volumes of
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	Hasta siempre companero Jorge Amado El Diario/La Prensa ; Pelaez, Vicky El Diario/La Prensa 08-21-2001 Hasta siempre compaero Jorge Amado "Se acost para siempre en su hamaca, la brisa de la baha lo refresca y lo hace soar. Su modo de ser, pacificador y sereno es parte de mi memoria, y de l me llega el orgullo vital de sus palabras: 'yo soy Jorge Amado,

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