2012 Puddly Awards
 
 
Follow us on TwitterFollow us on FacebookFollow us on TumblrSubscribe to RSS

Recently Viewed clear list

Original Essays | February 8, 2012

Kent Hartman: IMG A Raider by Any Other Name

2 comments By Kent Hartman

Perhaps you are aware of the fact that there is an oddly popular trivia game floating around that a group of clever (and likely bored) college... Continue »
  1. $18.19 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

    Kent Hartman 9780312619749
spacer
Free Shipping!

Ships free on qualified orders.
$17.00
New Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
2 Burnside Literature- A to Z
1 Hawthorne Literature- A to Z
15 Local Warehouse Literature- A to Z
15 Remote Warehouse Literature- A to Z

Other titles in the Pantheon Modern Writers series:

Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)

by Julio Cortazar

Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers) Cover

ISBN13: 9780394752846
ISBN10: 0394752848
All Product Details

 

Staff Pick

"Cortazar is an elixir; Hopscotch is precise and brilliant and disturbing as hell. A balance of absurdity and beauty, literally and in each ready sense, a tightrope walk between the window and the pavement ? this is what Hopscotch injects within the reader, what is frustrating and necessary and true. You become thirsty for it, by the end: somewhat addicted, not quite blessed."
Recommended by Jill Owens, Powells.com

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

Review:

"Cortazar's masterpiece...the first great novel of Spanish America." Times Literary Supplement

Review:

"The most brilliant novel in years....And if it does not render every other novel written about a search for meaning obsolete, Hopscotch certainly emphasizes their inadequacy...The most magnificent novel I have ever read, and one to which I return again and again." C. D. B. Bryan, The New Republic
back to top

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
Chazley, July 8, 2007 (view all comments by Chazley)
As do so many other works of social and literary importance, the novel contains so much philosophizing and the characters perform so much needless, endless self-analysis that the novel becomes unreadable for all but the most dedicated. The few redeeming qualities include the novel's wittiness, two or three unexpected twists, and the delight of the persistent hope that each character will meet his or her demise by the novel's end.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(1 of 18 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780394752846
Author:
Cortazar, Julio
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
c196
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Pantheon Modern Writers
Series Volume:
0000
Publication Date:
19870231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
576
Dimensions:
8.05x5.23x1.20 in. 1.17 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $12.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list

    Pocket Poets Series #53: Save Twilight: Selected Poems

    Julio Cortc!zar 9780872863330
  2. $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)

    William Faulkner 9780679732181
  3. $5.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Ryder

    Djuna Barnes 9780916583552
  4. $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Nadja

    Andre Breton 9780394173931
  5. $13.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Gravity's Rainbow

    Thomas Pynchon 9780140188592
  6. $7.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

    Italo Calvino 9780156439619
back to top

Related Aisles

Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers) New Trade Paper
0 stars - 0 reviews
$17.00 In Stock
Product details 576 pages Pantheon Books - English 9780394752846 Reviews:
"Staff Pick" by ,

"Cortazar is an elixir; Hopscotch is precise and brilliant and disturbing as hell. A balance of absurdity and beauty, literally and in each ready sense, a tightrope walk between the window and the pavement ? this is what Hopscotch injects within the reader, what is frustrating and necessary and true. You become thirsty for it, by the end: somewhat addicted, not quite blessed."

by Jill Owens
"Review" by , "Cortazar's masterpiece...the first great novel of Spanish America."
"Review" by , "The most brilliant novel in years....And if it does not render every other novel written about a search for meaning obsolete, Hopscotch certainly emphasizes their inadequacy...The most magnificent novel I have ever read, and one to which I return again and again."
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...


Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.