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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
ISBN: 9781846590481
Travelogue
19 June 2008
Paperback with flaps
13 x 20 cm
220 pages
£9.99

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About the Author
Julio Cortázar was born in Belgium in 1914 to Argentine parents. One of the true giants of twentieth-century literature, Cortazar was a tireless defender of Latin American self-determination.

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Reviews

'This touching roadtrip story was translated into English for the first time last year, and was quickly hailed as a classic'
Sunday Times

'A surreal, but also funny and loving journal charting the couple's unusual road trip along the Paris to Marseille autoroute in their VW camper van fafner.'
Independent on Sunday

'Cortazar is a unique storyteller.'
Time

'Julio Cortazar is a dazzler.'
The San Francisco Chronicle

'A first-class literary imagination.'
New York Times Book Review

'A playful, surprisingly intimate account of a marriage in all its ranging vicissitudes... a collaboration between two artists very much in love.'
Kirkus Review

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Excerpts
We could do nothing but stand there, quench the thirst for that color, that texture, suprised at finding that such emotion can still be born of a flower, and feeling a little silly at having no other possible reaction that saying oh, how lovely. And walking off to the motel room, key in hand.

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