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Savage Detectives : A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPicador
ISBN-100312427484
ISBN-139780312427481
eBay Product ID (ePID)63063735
Product Key Features
Book TitleSavage Detectives : a Novel
Number of Pages656 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicPsychological, Crime, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width6 in
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ReviewsRoberto 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
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Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal863.64
SynopsisNational 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 NumberPQ8098.12.O38
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- 09 Mar, 2023
One of the best latinamerican novels ever written
This is one of the best novels I've ever read (english or Spanish). The only thing I cared about was t hat the pages were legible, which they were. The content was the most important thing, so 5 stars ofcVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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