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The Return

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The Return

Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolano. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolanoâ€™s short stories is that they can do the â€œwork of a novel.â€ The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolano story might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend or a dream of meeting Enrique Lihn: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afootâ€•and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolanoâ€™s own).

Although a few have been serialized in The New Yorker and Playboy, most of the stories of The Return have never before appeared in English, and to Bolanoâ€™s many readers will be like catnip to the cats.

Country	USA
Author	Roberto Bolaño
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: New Directions
EAN	9780811217156
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0811217159
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2010-07-29
Publisher	New Directions
Studio	New Directions
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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