The Skating Rink
$29.42
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2024
Summary
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano’s work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Marti’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy - and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879533 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 143g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
The Skating Rink…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland. * The Observer *
This Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition. * The Independent *
[A] short, exquisite novel * The New York Times Book Review *
A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession set on the Costa Brava. * The Times *
Elegant, elusive and amusing * Daily Telegraph *
Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever.
Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia … and his writing was always unparalleled
Roberto Bolaño offers a unique, multilayered and quirky perspective on contemporary life. * Daily Mail *
One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation… At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.
‘Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño.
About The Author
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
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