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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Fiction

César Aira
translated by Chris Andrews

Contributors: Roberto Bolaño
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An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.

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César Aira

Contemporary Argentine author

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Publication Date: May 1, 2006

Paperback $ 12.95
CN 17.00
120 pages
ISBN 9780811216302

trim size: 5x7

Ebook $12.95
ISBN 9780811219808

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