Last evenings on Earth

Author / Creator

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003

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Summary

""The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and often unlucky) guest...

""The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and often unlucky) guests, speaking in the first person, as if giving a deposition - like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins."--BOOK JACKET.

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