Hopscotch

CORTAZAR,J

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Author
CORTAZAR,J
Publish Date
03/01/1987
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PANTHEO
Subtitle
A Novel
Number of Pages
576
Edition
1st Pantheon pbk. ed
ISBN-10
0394752848
ISBN-13
9780394752846
SKU
9780394752846

Description

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa

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.