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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty...

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Main Author: Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003
Other Authors: Wimmer, Natasha
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2007]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Poets, Mexican > Fiction.
Fugitives from justice > Mexico > Fiction.
Underground literature > Fiction.
Latin American poetry > Fiction.
Seventies (20th century) > Fiction.
Militants > Fiction.
Literary movements > Fiction.
Men > Friendship > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Psychological fiction, Chilean.
Latin American fiction > 21st century.
Spanish fiction > 21st century > Translations into English.
Fugitives from justice.
Latin American poetry.
Poets, Mexican.
Underground literature.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Fiction.
Mexico.
Mexico > Mexico City.
Suspense fiction.
Fiction.
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Summary:New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
Physical Description:577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0374191484 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780374191481 (hardback : alk. paper)