About this title: This is the tragic history of two men and their circle of friends who live in Buenos Aires and Paris. Anticipating the age of the Web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, the book invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves.
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Description: Good. 0394752848 Good Condition **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has some shelf wear, corner curl, some minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Still Tight and well bound. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Description: Signet, NY, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good Minus. 1" tear to hinge. First Thus. 448pp. Wraps have some creases. Pages have browned. read more
Description: Very Good. 0380003724 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bard Books
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. Minor shelf wear; Mild bumping and wear to corners and spine ends; Mild browning and minor soiling to page edges; Mild spine crease; Mild crack on spine; Minor rubbing and wear to covers and spine; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Description: Translated from the Spanish By Gregory Rabassa. (NY): Signet / New American Library, (1967). First Signet edition. Mass market paperback. Pages tanning, some cover wear and creasing, faint spot on the fore edges of pages. read more
Edition: First edition. 1st Signet edition. 3rd printing.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet / New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 448 p. By author of another underground classic: Blow-Up. A novel of intense living: game-playing with love and sex and hallucinogens. read more
Description: Very Good. 0380003724 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1987-03-01
ISBN-13:9780394752846ISBN:0394752848
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780394752846. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780394752846ISBN:0394752848
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. Former owner's address on both paste down and free end papers. Name whited out. FIRST PRINTING stated. Missing pieces to dj. Text in English, Spanish. 564 p. 22 cm. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Clean ex-library copy: "WITHDRAWN" stamped on front & rear fep w/ obligatory library pocket peeled off in back, but no other markings; luckily, dust jacket remains unscathed in fine condition; very presentable copy thus. Translated by Gregory Rabassa from the Spanish. 8vo 8 5/8"x 5 1/2" red-orange cloth w/ author's initials & hopscotch design printed in green on front; blue lettering & green design on spine; top edge slate-grey; fore-edge untrimmed; 564 pgs; colorful dust-jacket design w/ $6 ... read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1966 Pantheon hard cover-stated first printing-very slight wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) very slight staining to page edge-otherwise cover and binding like new contents clean-a very nice collectible-enjoy. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1966 Pantheon hard cover-stated first printing-very slight wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) very slight staining to page edge-otherwise cover and binding like new contents clean-a very nice collectible-enjoy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York:
Date Published: (1966).
Description: First U.S. edition. "In Hopscotch, one man's exasperated search for what his life is about takes the reader on a series of adventures so extravagant, yet so immediate, that the line between literature and the daily realities of life itself seems often to disappear. Such a response is intended; it is partly what Julio Cortazar's novel is about. " There is a name and address stamp, actually two as Mr. Yates moved, on the front free endpaper, otherwise the book is fine. The George Salter ... read more
"One of the best writers of the late 60's Latin American Boom. A jazz trumpet player, an ex-pat, and a gloriously gifted writer, Julio Cortazar penned not just some of the most well-crafted short stories i have ever read (think Borges but more urban nightlife and less intellectual workouts), but a novel that you can read from start to finish or in a pattern of suggested chapters which creates another novel. Brilliant? you should read it and decide. Tell me what you think. I re-read this book about every 5 years. It rewards re-reading."
"I read Hopscotch after I had read Bolano's Savage Detectives, with the vague idea that they were going to be the same kind of mystically weird, and I read Savage Detectives only after I had taught Cortázar's "Blow-Up," and I really only taught "Blow-Up" because I had read another Bolano story in the New Yorker, so it was an appropriately skewed progression through the wonderful sideways-sliding worlds of Cortázar. And I loved it--especially the gorgeous whimsical parts with La Maga (except for the horrible parts with La Maga). I love the short early chapter in which they are being chased out of the hanging fish market by French market-women who are trying to sell the fish rather than have them hang there in the air as objects of metaphysical fascination--but the fish are turning sideways and disappearing into thin orange lines, and how could that not entrance you? I am going to teach as much of this novel as possible in December, which is to say: we're going to end with the part where one of the members of the Club is making out with a redhead on the darkened stairs, and something alarming happens, and she flees the scene, and he shrugs and says he doesn't really care, because after all, she's Swiss, right?"
"I can't believe I'd never heard of Cortazar until this year. My brother and sister-in-law took me to Borders for Christmas so we could pick out books together as literary-minded relatives often do, and she suggested this. It has to be read twice (we all know it is only common courtesy to do so with the very best books anyway), but the second reading is mapped out by section number and has your fingers hopscotching their way around the pages. The skipping around is vaguely reminiscent of the Goosebumps series of my generation's childhood, but it presents the "Choose Your Own Adventure" theme more along the lines of "This Is an Adventure, But You Can't Always Choose Where It's Going". There are scenes when all the young characters are holed up in some hot Parisian penthouse that reminded me very much of the Whole Sick Crew in Thomas Pynchon's V. There were even experimental episodes in the book that seemed almost inspired by Ulysses (or drugs) that were challenging for both my brain and eyes to get through, yet they were accomplished by Cortazar with much poise and polish. The end."
"Brilliant, beautiful, heady and pretentious! A novel of metaphysics and deep sustained atmospherics that would sound diminished if you gave a linear account of it. It's about love, loss, yearning, art, identity, beauty, horror and multiplicity, and features mostly South American bohemian intellectuals passionately engaging (or often just discussing) the meaning of everything and nothing. It features characters with dual identities, a circus cat that can actually count, an insane asylum, The title has many meanings, one of which is that many different paths may be taken to the reach the same goal or place: and this book has a novel narrative device, in that it may be read straight-through, chapters 1-56, or by beginning at Chapter 73 and then following a "hopscotch" sequence through 155 chapters. Playful, engrossing and thought-provoking if you can relax and get over the pretentiousness of it, which was the biggest challenge I had. (Sidenote: "Hopscotch" was translated from Spanish by the amazine Gregory Rabassa, who also translated most of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's work.)"
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