9780811217132
The Skating Rink
Roberto Bolano
ISBN 13: 9780811217132
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly uses public funds to build a skating rink in a local ruin of a mansion in a seaside town of Spain, but Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.
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"THE SKATING RINK...is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all [Bolano's] books so far.....[He] manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing."
Wyatt Mason, New York Times Book Review, 08/30/2009
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Book Description: New Directions Publishing Corporation. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Skating Rink, Roberto Bolano, A hair-raising book that delivers Bolano's signature mix of mordant wit and romantic tenderness, The Skating Rink is both a crime and a love story. The story starts off with Gaspar Heredia - writer, Mexican, illegal immigrant, and stand-in for Bolano himself -who meets Remo Moran, a businessman who pulled himself up to wealth from his inauspicious beginnings as a stall vendor of cheap tourist souvenirs. Moran hires Heredia as night watchman for a campground Moran runs as a stopping ground for many illegal immigrants. Heredia, out of boredom, starts spying on Moran's odd friends and accidentally stumbles across a skating rink built by a corrupt civil servant - Enric Rosquelles: pompous, fat, squat and ugly - who has diverted public funds to secretly build the rink on behalf of the love of his life: Maria, a young blonde babe whose abiding passion is to make it onto the Spanish Olympic ice-skating team and who, unbeknownst to Enric, is having a fling with Remo Moran, our successful businessman risen from cheap souvenirs. Alas, the discovery of Enric's crimes leads to madcap blackmail, more crime, sex, intrigue - and murder. Told in rotating narratives of the three men whose actions revolve around the young blonde skating babe and her dim-witted but strong-willed manipulations. Set in the imaginary resort town of Z, north of Barcelona, Spain. Bookseller Inventory # B9780811217132 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: New Directions Publishing Corporation, United States, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 203 x 142 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three male narrators, revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly builds a skating rink in the ruined Palacio Benvingut, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene. A mysterious pair of women, an ex-opera singer and a taciturn girl often armed with a knife, turn up as well.A complex book, The Skating Rink s short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; it s also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And it s an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social workers. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780811217132 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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