| The Skating Rink Contributor(s): Bolaño, Roberto (Author), Andrews, Chris (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811218686 ISBN-13: 9780811218689 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009010724 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.3" W x 8.06" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano's The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, according to The Observer, "declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective." Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. A ruined mansion, knife-wielding women, political corruption, sex, and jealousy all appear in this atmospheric chronicle of a single summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, businessmen, immigrants, bureaucrats, social workers, and drifters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Andrews, Chris: - The poet Chris Andrews teaches at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, where he is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He has translated books by Roberto Bolaño and César Aira for New Directions. He has won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for his poetry and the Valle-Inclan Prize for his translations.Bolano, Roberto: - Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. |