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Hopscotch: A Novel

by JULIO CORTAZAR

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Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967Horacio 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 "... Read more
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. Less

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File size8 X 5.2 X 1.1 in
Print pages576
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date February 12, 1987
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780394752846
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Julio Cortázar
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Julio Cortázar (26 Aug 1914 – 12 Feb 1984) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Born in Belgium, he spent most of his childhood in Buenos Aires, and moved to France as an ad...

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