We have said a few bad things about Picador/Macmillan/Richard Charkin in the past. Were we right or wrong? That's not the point.
What is the point?
I have a book here before me.
It's published by Picador.
It's out here in July.
It's bloody brilliant - the sort of book I get a "feeling" about. It's kind of like falling in love only a little less intense. It's all about the writing for me these days, the way the author kind of creeps out from amongst the words and gets inside your head. I laughed out loud on the bus after 30 pages. I laughed from sheer joy. It's a large book and the HB is a little unwieldy...but if this isn't sitting on every bookshop table, bedside table, coffee table etc when it eventually makes it to PB well, if I had a hat I'd eat it.
Massive.
Brilliant.
Pure great stuff fiction.
What's the book?
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano.
I'll say more when I've finished it...
Glad to hear it's good. I love his other books. Great writer.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the novel, but I first heard about Roberto Bolaño in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/03/26/070326crat_atlarge_zalewski
ReplyDeleteIsabel Allende's post-mortem comment on Bolaõ, “Death does not make you a nicer person,” is a classic - though nothing to do with the book, obviously.
Still loving the Bolano but have had a lot of child care to handle this week...Maybe I will finish it over the weekend...
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