| Hopscotch Contributor(s): Cortázar, Julio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394752848 ISBN-13: 9780394752846 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1987 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86025347 |
| Series: Pantheon Modern Writers |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.23" W x 8.05" (1.17 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967 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, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures. |