The Insufferable Gaucho

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217167
• ISBN13: 9780811217163
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.5"