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A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

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"Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent." -- Larry Rohter - The New York Times
"The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world." -- Susan Sontag - Times Literary Supplement
"He is by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time." -- Ilan Stavans - Los Angeles Times
"Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine

Amulet

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    A Paperback / softback by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/05/2008
      ISBN13: 9780811217460, 978-0811217460
      ISBN10: 0811217469

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

      Trade Review
      "Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent." -- Larry Rohter - The New York Times
      "The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world." -- Susan Sontag - Times Literary Supplement
      "He is by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time." -- Ilan Stavans - Los Angeles Times
      "Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine

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