A novel which describes the last few hours in the life of an unnamed young man who is on the run in Havana during the violent tyranny of Batista. The author - who was amongst the first to use "magic realism" - has also written "Explosion in a Cathedral" and "The Lost Steps".
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A novel which describes the last few hours in the life of an unnamed young man who is on the run in Havana during the violent tyranny of Batista. The author - who was amongst the first to use "magic realism" - has also written "Explosion in a Cathedral" and "The Lost Steps".
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Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $3.90, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Diamond rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Add this copy of Chase to cart. $3.90, good condition, Sold by Becker's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Houston, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $6.50, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Minerva.
Add this copy of Chase to cart. $7.04, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $7.07, very good condition, Sold by HPB Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $7.16, good condition, Sold by Best and Fastest Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wantage, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $8.40, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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New York. 1989. September 1989. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374120838. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 122 pages. hardcover. Jacket design (c) 1989 by Syndi Becker Author photo by Mario Ferrer. keywords: Literature Translated Cuba Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The fragmentation and counterpoint of his narrative, its cycles and spirals, give his work a labyrinthine quality. In THE CHASE, Carpentier combines atmosphere, violence, and a sophisticated meditation on flight from the modern world into a richly textured romance of exploration. The current boom in Latin American fiction-the heady mix of fevered politics and narrative innovation in the works of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, JosE Donoso, and others-would not have been possible without Alejo Carpentier's THE CHASE. For it is this remarkable novella which changed the literary imagination of the Spanish language, much as the work of Jorge Luis Borges revolutionized its narrative forms, Written in 1956, The Chase is a thrilling tale told against the backdrop of Havana in the era of Batistas violent tyranny. Carpentier tells of two men (one a student on the run, the other a ticket seller in a concert hall) who come to find their lives-and fates-intertwined. Both men trace paths through the tumultuous city that bring them to the home of Estrella, a prostitute. They are planets doomed to orbit around-this fixed star. THE CHASE is Carpentier at his luxuriant, baroque best. His language, as one critic has observed, seems to register the contrary impulses that set imagination against reason; its involuted syntax coils around the sharp edges of concepts and ideas as if to draw them into equivocal and more elusive terrain. He masterfully undermines a sense of linear progress, deepening the mystery of historical time. inventory #12990.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $8.50, good condition, Sold by Orca Books Cooperative rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olympia, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Used-G. This book is noticeably used and in good condition. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore! Page edges discolored from age and/or sun damage. Shelf wear on cover and/or edges. Text and cover are undamaged and clean.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $8.99, good condition, Sold by Firefly Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kutztown, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Used Good in Good jacket. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.
Add this copy of The Chase to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by MLC Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Northfield, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Andre Deutsch.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A tale of two Cuban men who find their lives and fates interetwined in Batista's violent tyranny. First British edition, originally published in 1956. Spine ends very gently bumped with price sticker residue on the front end paper. Jacket lightly crimped with a touch of wear to the upper corners, in Brodart.
