The Skating Rink (New Directions Paperbook)
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction



Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0811218689
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811218686
Publisher: New Directions
Print length: 192 pages
Publication date: February 28, 2011
subtitle: Paperback – February 28, 2011
author: Visit Amazon's Roberto Bolaño Page search results Roberto Bolaño Chris Andrews
review: Editorial Reviews Review Exquisite . . . another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far. The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing. --Wyatt Mason" There is much intensity at work, although The Skating Rink leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image. --Siddhartha Deb ""Books of the Year" "" This is pure Bolano. " This is pure Bolano. This is pure Bolaño. A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty. -- James Yeh Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolano novels. -- Savannah ("Savvy") Jones Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolano's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch. -- Todd Shy One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page. -- Marilis Hornidge This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far...Bolano in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing. -- Wyatt Mason When I read Bolano, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live. -- Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love About the Author Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolano (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. Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He studied at the University of Melbourne and taught there, in the French program, from 1995 to 2008. He also taught at the University of Western Sydney, where he was a member of the Writing and Society Research Center. As well as translating nine books by Roberto Bolano and ten books (and counting) by César Aira, he also brought the French author Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches into English for New Directions. Andrews has won the Valle-Inclán Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translations. Additionally, he has published the critical studies Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge and Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe as well as two collections of poems, Cut Lunch and Lime Green Chair , for which he won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.