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Roberto Bolaño
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| [2011] | First American edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 277 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F BOLAN |
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| [2011] | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F BOLAN |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown...
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2) 2666
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| [2008] | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 898 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Westover - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
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| [2007] | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 577 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Detective D BOLAN |
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| OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out |
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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
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| 2006. | New Directions Books | 219 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F BOLAN Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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5) The return
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| 2010. | New Directions Pub. Corp | 199 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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| 2014. | First edition. | New Directions Publishing Corporation | 109 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN Westover - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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"A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women. "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime": so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness...
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| 2010. | New Directions | ix, 134 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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| 2012. | First American edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 250 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN Westover - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.
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| 2009. | A New Directions Book | 182 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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| [2010] | Texto completo. | Recorded Books | 5 audio discs (5 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Español | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD/SPA F BOLAN |
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Set in Chile in the early 1970s, when Allende was still president, this novel traces the divergent paths of three young Chilean poets enrolled in a poetry workshop at university. Suffused with "the melancholy folklore of exile," the work explores poetry and politics in the years following Pinochet's coup.
En el Chile de inicios de los setentas, antes del golpe militar a Salvador Allende. Un hombre de apariencia tímida y distante atrae a las mujeres...
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| 2019. | Penguin Press | 196 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world--or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams. But as close as these friends are, the...
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| 2018. | Primera edición Vintage Español. | Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC | 647 pages ; 21 cm | Español | Available Shirlington - World Languages SPA F BOLAN |
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Los cuentos de Bolaño condensan en el breve espacio que caracteriza las obras del género todo su universo literario, uno de los más rupturistas y personales de la literatura contemporánea en español: la literatura que lo impregna todo; la sexualidad; las vidas de seres que pese a ser comunes, transcurren entre lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario; la rebeldía de aquellos que viven en la estrecha frontera que separa el sistema de la marginalidad;...
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| 2018. | Primera edición Vintage Español. | Vintage Español, una division de Penguin Random House LLC | 196 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | Español | Available Central - World Languages SPA F BOLAN |
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Una clave más del universo literario de Roberto Bolaño, uno de los escritores imprescindibles de la literatura contemporánea en español. Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles inéditas -"Patria", "Sepulcros de vaqueros" y "Comedia del horror de Francia"- en las que está presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la ironía, México, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la búsqueda... a lo...
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| [2012] | New Directions Pub | x, 144 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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| 2010. | 1a edición Vintage Español. | Vintage Español | 609 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | Español | Available Shirlington - World Languages SPA F BOLAN |
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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
La novela narra la búsqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesárea Tinajero, por parte de dos jóvenes poetas fundadores...
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| 2009 | 1. ed. Vintage Español. | Vintage Español | 1125 p. ; 21 cm. | Español | Available Central - World Languages SPA F BOLAN |
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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
"Cuatro académicos tras la pista de un enigmático escritor alemán; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en México; un filósofo viudo; un detective de policía enamorado de una esquiva mujer--estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta...
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| 2011. | New Directions | ix, 390 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 864 BOLAN |
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"Between Parentheses" collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues. Taken together, as the editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his Introduction, they provide a personal cartography of the writer.
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18) Amulet
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| 2008. | New Directions | 184 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Bolaño (Bolaño's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well...
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19) Distant star
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| [2004] | New Directions Pub | 149 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BOLAN |
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The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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20) El tercer reich
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| [2010] | Texto completo. | Recorded Books | 10 audio discs (11 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Español | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD/SPA D BOLAN |
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Udo Berger, escritor fracasado y campeón de juegos de estrategia, viaja de nuevo al pequeǫ pueblo de la Costa Brava catalana donde pasaba los veranos de su infancia. Acompañado por su novia, pasa la mayor parte del tiempo con su juego favorito: El Tercer Reich. Una noche conocen a otra pareja de alemanes, Charly y Hanna, con quien planean pasar los siguientes días. Pero cuando Charly desaparece esa misma noche, la apacible vida de Udo cambiará...
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