Rodrigo Fresan, Author, Natasha Wimmer, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (370p) ISBN 978-0-374-18101-7
The "tycoon hermit of children's literature," Peter Hook, kidnaps the child star of the upcoming film version of his hero's adventures Jim Yang: The Movie
. The book is constructed as a confession foisted by Hook on the bound and...
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Rodrigo Fresan, trans. from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden. Open Letter, $18.95 trade paper (552p) ISBN 978-1-940953-56-4
Fresan’s massive novel is obsessed with the way writers cannibalize their lives for material. It’s principally the musings of an unnamed and tormented writer—variously referred to as the Boy, the Young Man, or the Lonely Man—who dreams of being...
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Rodrigo Fresan, trans. from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden. Open Letter, $17.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-960385-16-1
Argentine writer Fresan (The Invented Part) focuses his visionary latest on the inner life of author Herman Melville and the exploits of his tormented father, Allan. In the first section, set in December 1831, 12-year-old Herman sits by Allan’s...
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