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The Savage Detectives is a rumbustious account of idealist anarchist poets which drew an international audience.
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review Philip Hensher 2010
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MABERRY: People said that True Detectives is “… adrenaline-fueled read.”
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Another novel by Bolaño available in translation called The Savage Detectives is set in Mexico City during that era when he was a literary (and Trotskyite) radical.
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Detectives from the police homicide branch are investigating the shootings.
2 killed in overnight D.C. shootings J. Freedom du Lac 2010
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Another novel by Bolaño available in translation called The Savage Detectives is set in Mexico City during that era when he was a literary (and Trotskyite) radical.
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The Savage Detectives is a novel about the intolerable consequences of “faking the coincidence.”
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And yet (for me, at least) The Savage Detectives is still a great novel about poetry.
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Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives is a vast, sexy, sidewinding book that turns the novel inside-out through of a sheer love of storytelling.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Batman: The Ace of Detectives is a serialized, full-cast audio adventure with one new episode every month!
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Marcela Valdes: The Savage Detectives is a marvelously structured, playful book about many things, but what interests me — and, perhaps, a good place to start this conversation — is the way Roberto Bolaño portrays the clique-ishness of the Mexican poetry world during the 1970s.
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