The flame-coloured dress and other stories
By: José Régio ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull.
Series: Portuguese fiction; From the Portuguese.
Publisher: Carcanet; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Instituo Camões; Instituto Portugués do Libro e das Bibliotecas
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester [England]; [Lisbon, Portugal]
Language: eng; por
Number of pages: 207
Description: "This collection of stories, Jose Regio's controversial masterpiece Historias de Mulheres, is here translated for the first time into English. Regio creates a gallery of women - women who are outsiders, born into a society in which they are constrained by class, education, money and social expectations." "Dulce is the pawn of feckless guardians. Miss Olimpia is trapped by poverty and her own pretensions. Rosa, for her part, refuses to conform to the stereotype of saccharine femininity, with serious consequences for herself and for her world. Some of the women cope, others go under. A few, in unexpected ways, triumph."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: They used to go for long walks on Sundays...; title: A sad smile; title: Miss Olímpia and her maid Balarmina; title: The story of Rosa Brava; title: María do Ahú; title: The flame-coloured dress; title: A brief comedy.