Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.55.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.55.
Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330510525 ISBN 13: 9780330510523
Language: English
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona. The story revolves around the beautiful figure skating champion Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds; but such a betrayal is only the beginning and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene .Told in short suspenseful chapters by three alternating male narrators -- a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered, yet still romantic, itinerant poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur -- The Skating Rink is a wholly engrossing tale of murder and its motives. 'This short exquisite novel .manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing.' New York Times 'Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is immensely readable' Guardian 'His fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental' Times Literary Supplement 'Bolano has come close to re-imagining the novel' Independent 'His work is as vital, thrilling and life-enhancing as anything in modern fiction' Sunday Times 'Bolano has proved [literature] can do anything' Scotsman '[Bolano] made each book more ambitious so that it will take us many years to come to terms with his vast achievement' Colm Toibin 'He has the natural storyteller's gift -- but more important, he has the power to lend an extraordinary glamour to the activities of making love and making poetry' Edmund White 'Bolano was one of those rare writers who write for a future time, and we, especially we in the Anglophone world, have only begun to appreciate his strange, oblique genius' John Banville 'Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times 'It's no exaggeration to call Bolano a genius' Washington Post 'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of vision on the world' Guardian. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.71.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British edition. Small tear to the die-cut on the front panel of the jacket and some slight surface wear.
Published by Picador, London, England, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330510525 ISBN 13: 9780330510523
Language: English
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Translated by Chris Andrews. Ex-library with usual markings and clear plastic cover. Otherwise in like new condition.
Published by Picador Hardbacks, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330510525 ISBN 13: 9780330510523
Language: English
Seller: Time Traveler Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British Edition; First Printing. Full number line.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Picador. 2010. First Edition/First Printing. (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Yellow boards with black spine titles. The flyleaf and recto of the copyright page have some neat library marks but as the book has been protected, its condition is as new. A darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona. A wholly engrossing tale of murder and its motives. The author is Chilean; the novel was translated by Chris Andrews.
hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First British Edition. Publisher: Picador, London, 2010. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread.
Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Published by Picador, Londion, England, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330510525 ISBN 13: 9780330510523
Language: English
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; cutaway on front cover is in very good condition; a collectible copy; 182 pages. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Complete number line; not price clipped; edging to simulated bullet hole on cover slightly creased. Top of text block slightly tanned. Overall in very good condition.
Published by Picador, Great Britain, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330510525 ISBN 13: 9780330510523
Language: English
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This is a true UK first edition / first printing, numbered 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. A perfect copy of this brilliant, short novel, by the internationally-acclaimed Latin American author of '2666' and 'The Savage Detectives' . The author passed away in 2003, but his reputation continues to grow. Here, what appears at first to be a love story about a pretty young American skating star, is actually a blackly comic novel about corruption, desire and murder. A pristine copy of an important book. We protect all our books with a removable plastic cover, and send them with care.