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The Skating Rink Hardcover Roberto Bolano
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- Publication Name
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN
- 9780811217132
- Book Title
- Skating Rink
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three male narrators, revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly builds a skating rink in the ruined Palacio Benvingut, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene. A mysterious pair of women, an ex-opera singer and a taciturn girl often armed with a knife, turn up as well. A complex book, The Skating Rink 's short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; it's also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And it's an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social workers.
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811217132
ISBN-13
9780811217132
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Skating Rink
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pq8098.12.O38p5713
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Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolao's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch., This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far…Bolaño in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing., A Book of the Year: The Skating Rink leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image., This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far...Bolano in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing., The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews.... Deserves to be read widely., When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live., When I read Bolao, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live., Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-010724
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Dewey Edition
22
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