One of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolano story is just as likely to concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, the history of a porn star or two embittered police detectives debating their favourite weapons: his plots ...
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One of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolano story is just as likely to concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, the history of a porn star or two embittered police detectives debating their favourite weapons: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot -- and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolano's own, of course). This treasure trove of disquieting short master-works from the giant of Latin American literature perfectly encapsulates 'the fact that Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is so immensely readable' (Guardian).
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NF in NF jacket. Octavo. Bright red boards quarterbound in a charcoal colored backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a faint trace of rubbing at the head of the spine and light rubbing at the tail, mostly at the corners. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 199 pages. Dust Jacket-has a trace of rubbing at the very tips of the two rear outside corners-jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Nice copy! Bolano probably best known for his The Savage Detectives or later 2666. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
