The killer
By: Patrícia Melo ; translated by Clifford E. Landers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Hopewell, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Murderers -- Fiction.; São Paulo (Brazil) -- Fiction.
Description: "Melo's prize-winning novel (Matador) is a thriller about a man who accidentally becomes a hired killer and a local hero. Once again Landers achieves an excellent result: colloquial, entirely readable, and authentic, with just the right tone for its narrator whose language one reviewer has called 'racy hoodlum-speak.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.