{"product_id":"the-skating-rink-9780811217132","title":"The Skating Rink","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He is by far the most exciting writer to come from South of the Rio Grande in a long time.” —Ilan Stavans, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño’s aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.\" -- Todd Shy - San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\"Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolaño novels.\" -- Savannah (\"Savvy\") Jones - SirReadaLot.org\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty.\" -- James Yeh - The Faster Times\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page.\" -- Marilis Hornidge - The Lincoln County News\u003cbr\u003e\"This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e as all his books so far…Bolano in \u003cem\u003eThe Skating Rink\u003c\/em\u003e manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing.\" -- Wyatt Mason - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Passion, mystery, seedy bars, and Bolaño's Olympian irony are here, as always.\" -- The Village Voice\u003cbr\u003e\"When I read Bolaño, 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\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Skating Rink\u003c\/em\u003e…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland.\" -- Anthony Cummins - The Observer\u003cbr\u003e\"…this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.\" -- Emma Hagestadt - The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning work of fiction. It is infused with a gritty poeticism and a unique worldview.\" -- Don Sjoerdsma - Northwest Phoenix [Indiana University]\u003cbr\u003e\"A Book of the Year: \u003cem\u003eThe Skating Rink\u003c\/em\u003e leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image.\" -- Siddhartha Deb - Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\"The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews…. Deserves to be read widely.\" -- Rosemary Aud Franklin - World Literature Today","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862995796311,"sku":"9780811217132","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811217132.jpg?v=1759919311","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-skating-rink-9780811217132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}