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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 56 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Thom Rivera. |
| Summary |
As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of church and state in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel-Roberto Bolaño's first work available in English-recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and conservative literary critic, a sort of lapdog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Jünger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei to study "the disintegration of the churches"-a journey into realms of the surreal-and, ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned, after the destruction of Allende, the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marked the American debut of an astonishing writer. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Fiction.
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Opus Dei -- Fiction.
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Memories -- Fiction.
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Secrets -- Fiction.
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Priests -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Andrews, Chris.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982479657 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982479655 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11867967 |
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