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Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon

But there’s something in him that wants to fight

with her trademark wit and zest

He fashioned an uneasy but potent multiracial coalition that today still stands as a model for political change

Soon the couples are barely speaking

São Bernardo (New York Review Books Classics) Muffin & Scone Baking Rising from the Rails providesA masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists. Paulo Honrio is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate So Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be