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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9780312427481
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312427484
ISBN-13
9780312427481
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63063735
Product Key Features
Book Title
Savage Detectives : a Novel
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Psychological, Crime, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible., "An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez."-- San Francisco Chronicle "My favorite writer . . . The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come."--Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love " The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel."--Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening."--John Banville, The Nation "A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word."-- Esquire "Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible."-- Vogue "Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice."--Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel."-- Elle "Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family." --The New York Times Book Review, One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening., "A masterpiece . . . [Roberto Bolaño is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since GarcÃa Márquez."--San FranciscoChronicle "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel."--Elle "Wildly enjoyable…Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family."--The New York Times Book Review, ôAn exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel that follows two literary sleuths on their quixotic quest for a long-lost poet through the feverish Mexican desert. With decade-bending, sleight-of-hand pit stops in Paris, London, Mexico City, and Tel Aviv.ö - Elle ôWildly enjoyableà it is both narrowly about poetry and broadly about the difficulty of sustaining the hopes of youth. Bola±o beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family." - The New York Times Magazine ôDeeply satisfying . . . Bola±oÆs book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readerÆs conventional expectations . . . A very good novel.ö - The Los Angeles Times, "An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez." -- San Francisco Chronicle "My favorite writer . . . The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come." -- Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love " The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel." -- Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening." -- John Banville, The Nation "A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word." -- Esquire "Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible." -- Vogue "Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice." -- Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel." -- Elle "Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family." -- The New York Times Book Review, An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez., My favorite writer . . . The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come., Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice., "An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez."--San FranciscoChronicle "My favorite writer . . .The Savage Detectivesis an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come."--Nicole Krauss, author ofThe Historyof Love "The Savage Detectivesis deeply satisfying. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel."--Thomas McGonigle,Los AngelesTimes "One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening."--John Banville,The Nation "A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word."--Esquire "Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible."--Vogue "Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice."--Emily Carter Roiphe,Star Tribune(Minneapolis) "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel."--Elle "Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family."--The New York Times Book Review, A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word., Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family., The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel., "An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez."-- San Francisco Chronicle "My favorite writer . . . The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come."--Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love " The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel."--Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening."--John Banville, The Nation "A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word."-- Esquire "Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible."-- Vogue "Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice."--Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel."-- Elle "Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family." --The New York Times Book Review, "A masterpiece . . . [Roberto Bolano is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garcia Marquez."--"San Francisco"" Chronicle" "" "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel."--"Elle" "" "Wildly enjoyable...Bolano beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family.""--The New York Times Book Review", "An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garca Mrquez." -- San Francisco Chronicle "My favorite writer . . . The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come." -- Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love " The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolao's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel." -- Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening." -- John Banville, The Nation "A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word." -- Esquire "Roberto Bolao's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible." -- Vogue "Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice." -- Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel." -- Elle "Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolao beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family." -- The New York Times Book Review
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
863.64
Synopsis
National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bola o tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age., National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. "The Savage Detectives "is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age., National Bestseller A New York Times Best Book of the Twenty-First Century The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times ), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
LC Classification Number
PQ8098.12.O38
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- o***e (848)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExceptional experience, start to finish!!! Excellent communication, shipping care was above & beyond, the "pre-owned" described item's condition is MINT-- including all of the original tags and packaging! There is literally zero evidence these boots have ever actuallly been worn!! Cannot thank you enough for such a pleasant, rewarding transaction & such awesome value!! Many, many thanks & kindest regards!!
- o***9 (307)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem took too long to get shipped. I had a tracking number 6 days before item was given to post office. Once the usps had the package it arrived quickly. Item was as described and was packed very well. Customer service was responsive. If I knew that seller took so long to ship I would not have bought item from them. Nowhere does it say on the sellers site that they take 5-7 days to ship. That is rediculous. Anyhow. The old tape deck i bought works. Once belts are replaced it should be good.
- e***a (123)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent seller! Item arrived in described condition shipped by FedEx on the date projected (3 days). Item was extremely well packaged in a Ziploc bag inside of a custom formed cushion wrap style bubble wrap, in a cardboard box. Great price for a great item in great condition!