| Description |
195 pages ; 22 cm |
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"Originally published in Spanish as Sepulcros de vaqueros by Alfaguara, Madrid" -- title page verso. |
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Translated from the Spanish. |
| Contents |
Cowboy graves -- French comedy of horrors -- Fatherland -- Afterword: Perpetual motion / by Juan Antonio Masoliver R̓odenas. |
| Summary |
"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his great triumphs, while deepening our understanding of his profound gifts"--Provided by publisher. |
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Short stories, Latin American.
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Short stories, Latin American. (OCoLC)fst01117265
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Socialism -- Fiction.
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Poets -- Fiction.
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Secret societies -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
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Novellas. (OCoLC)fst01921741
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Novellas.
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| Added Author |
Wimmer, Natasha, translator.
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| Added Title |
Sepulcros de vaqueros. English
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| Related To |
Online version: Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. Cowboy graves New York : Penguin Press, 2021. 9780735222892 (DLC) 2020022796 |
| ISBN |
9780735222885 hardcover : $24.00 |
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0735222886 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
40030391791 |
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