{"product_id":"9781784879501","title":"The Insufferable Gaucho","description":"Author: Bolaño, Roberto\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784879501\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Dec 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 192\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose work he's plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in \u003ci\u003eThe Insufferable Gaucho\u003c\/i\u003e are some of Roberto Bolano's best. In addition, two essays are included- provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolano's trademark humour, violence and utter faith in the power of the written word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exemplary literary rebel' \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A master of the short form' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46722403926174,"sku":"UBD-9781784879501","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781784879501.jpg?v=1776318750","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781784879501","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}