The Insufferable Gaucho

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" (Publishers Weekly) and "complex and provocative" (International Herald Tribune), and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/31/2010
ISBN: 9780811217163
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.58w x 0.77d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2010 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 07/05/2010
Booklist 08/01/2010 pg. 25
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 76
New York Times Book Review 09/19/2010 pg. 16
New York Review of Books 10/13/2011 pg. 33