Skating Rink Fiction and traversals between the natural

and traversals between the natural and the artificial

including along the Outer Banks

where artists and poets met nightly to talk

the three novels are exuberant and deliberately affectless accounts of the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Parisian club and bath scene still haunted by AIDS

Skating Rink Fiction and traversals between the naturalTitle: Skating Rink Author: Roberto Bolao ISBN: 9780811218689 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2011 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolao's The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolao, who in his last interview, according to The Observer,