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 th...
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Number of Pages: 577
ISBN: 0374191484
ISBN-13: 9780374191481
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Anja Skoglund @puddaholic
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Sep 6, 2022
- Answered to What's your favorite book that's over 600 pages?
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The Savage Detectives is also great but more avant garde
Isabelle Popp @isabellepoppHEA
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May 24, 2022
- Curated in 20 MUST-READ ROAD TRIP BOOKS
There is a simple way to describe the road trip in this novel. Two poets in Mexico City, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, travel to the desert to find another poet who has vanished. But that simple goal turns into a much more complex story that tracks Belano and Lima’s lives 20 years later. This novel, jam-packed with characters and ideas, is the ideal book for when you want a challenging book whose impact will travel with you through the decades.