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The Insufferable Gaucho

Roberto Bolaño

3.8/5 ( ratings)

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable, daring, and highly controlled, yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" and"complex and provocative" , and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.

Language: English

Pages: 164

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: New Directions

Release: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 0811217167

ISBN 13: 9780811217163

The Insufferable Gaucho

Roberto Bolaño

3.8/5 ( ratings)

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable, daring, and highly controlled, yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" and"complex and provocative" , and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.

Language: English

Pages: 164

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: New Directions

Release: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 0811217167

ISBN 13: 9780811217163

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