| Description |
182 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Spain as La pista de hielo in 1993"--T.p. verso. |
| Summary |
The Skating Rink is both a crime and a love story. The story starts off with Gaspar Heredia -- writer, Mexican, illegal immigrant, and stand-in for Bolano himself --who meets Remo Moran, a businessman who pulled himself up to wealth from his inauspicious beginnings as a stall vendor of cheap tourist souvenirs. Moran hires Heredia as night watchman for a campground Moran runs as a stopping ground for many illegal immigrants. Heredia, out of boredom, starts spying on Moran's odd friends and accidentally stumbles across a skating rink built by a corrupt civil servant -- Enric Rosquelles: pompous, fat, squat and ugly -- who has diverted public funds to secretly build the rink on behalf of the love of his life: Maria, a young blonde babe whose abiding passion is to make it onto the Spanish Olympic ice-skating team and who, unbeknownst to Enric, is having a fling with Remo Moran, our successful businessman risen from cheap souvenirs. Alas, the discovery of Enric's crimes leads to madcap blackmail, more crime, sex, intrigue -- and murder. |
| Subject |
Figure skaters -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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City and town life -- Spain -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Andrews, Chris, 1962-
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| Added Title |
Pista de hielo. English
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| ISBN |
9780811217132 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0811217132 hardcover alkaline paper |
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