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More copies of this ISBN:Other titles in the Pantheon Modern Writers series:Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)by Julio Cortazar
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"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." Synopses & ReviewsPublisher 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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