Samba dreamers
By: Kathleen de Azevedo.
Series: Camino del sol
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780816524907
Subjects: Brazilian Americans -- Fiction.; Emigration and immigration -- fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Brazil -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; fiction.
Description: When Jose Francisco Verguerio Silva arrives at LAX, fleeing the brutal dictatorship in his native Brazil, he is determined to become Americanized at all costs. He lands a job driving a Hollywood tour bus and posing as Ricky Ricardo. He marries a blonde waitress and becomes the father of twins.