“Cortazar’s masterpiece … The first great novel of Spanish America” (The Times Literary Supplement) – Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A child’s death and La Maga’s disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira’s astonishing adventures.
Author: Julio Cortázar
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 02/12/1987
Series: Pantheon Modern Writers #0000
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.23w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780394752846
Language: English
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