Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations
        
                    
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            Monica Maristain
        
        
                
                            
        
        
        
                    
                ISBN: 1612193471
            
        
                    
                Publication Date: 2014-09-30
            
        
                
                            
                In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to his beginnings as a poet, and to the stardom that came with the publication of the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666.  Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years to introduce a writer whose works grabbed readers worldwide.