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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Overview
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. lvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780940322912
- ISBN-10: 0940322919
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Publish Date: February 2002
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.55 pounds
- Page Count: 720
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