Description: "Originally published in 1993 by Fundacion Colegio del Rey, Spain, as La pista de hielo"--Title page verso.
Brief description: Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
Review Quotes:
"Exquisite . . . [A] masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books . . .The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing."
--Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review
--Boris Kachka, New York "[In the spirit of] the cerebral, playful fictions of Italo Calvino or Georges Perec."
--Jerome Boyd Maunsell, The Times Literary Supplement "A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession."
--Kate Saunders, The Times (London)