Dancing with the devil in the City of God : Rio de Janeiro on the brink

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Label

Dancing with the devil in the City of God : Rio de Janeiro on the brink

Title remainder

Rio de Janeiro on the brink

Statement of responsibility

Juliana Barbassa

Creator

• Barbassa, Juliana

Subject

• Barbassa, Juliana
• Barbassa, Juliana -- Travel -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro
• Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
• City and town life
• City and town life -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro
• Economic development
• Economic development -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro
• Economic history
• HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America
• HISTORY -- Social History
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International | Economics
• Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Description and travel
• Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Economic conditions
• Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions
• Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
• Social change
• Social change -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro
• Social conditions
• Social problems
• Social problems -- Brazil | Rio de Janeiro
• Travel
• Manners and customs

Language

eng

Summary

"In the tradition of Detroit : An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find the city that once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods was now on the precipice of a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a predictable, pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order--and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn't be higher. With a cast of larger-than-life characters who are driving this fast-moving juggernaut or who risk getting caught in its gears, this kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective into a city on the brink from a native daughter whose life, hopes, and fortunes are entwined with those of the city she portrays"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

981/.53

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

F2646.2

LC item number

.B37 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography