{"product_id":"the-shipyard-juan-carlos-onetti-paperback-book-acceptable","title":"The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti Paperback Book - Acceptable","description":"\u003cp class=\"sc-item-remarks\"\u003eAcceptable - We have carefully checked this item for you. Acceptable Condition: 'To us' this means the book will be in acceptable used condition. The dust jacket will be included if it is meant to have one. The item may show signs of wear\/tear. It may have pen marks, writing or scribbles. However all pages will be intact and fully readable. The condition will be reflected in the price - so you're still getting a good deal!\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eReview      The Graham Greene of Uruguay... foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus -- Sunday Telegraph ?The Onetti experience is a curious one: readers end up feeling that they understand life better after a stay in this ghostly, tantalising world, only to lose the wisdom they have gained after a few hours of release from the spell. The f ― the flavour inimitable? Guardian ?Onettis voice and subject matter are his own... his work is always on a knife-edge... He is laconic, elegant, literary? London Review of Books ?This literary landmark is here delivered in a wonderful translation that retains all the bleakness and poetry of the antihero Larsen as he attempts to salvage the unsalvageable? Independent on Sunday 'Combining the alienation of Camus with the fatalism of Eeyore -- Guardian ?Onetti?s poetic prose captures Larsen?s world, be it mad or confused ― and makes The Shipyard absorbing reading? Morning Star      Product Description      First published in 1961, The Shipyard chronicles an anti-hero named Larsen who returns to a fictional place, Santa Mar?a, to try to revive a useless and abandoned shipyard. With all the enthusiasm of a man condemned to be hanged, Larsen takes up his new post. Like the other workers at the shipyard, he routinely goes through the motions. Every so often, his sense of reality is shaken by a tremor of self-deception and then it is possible to believe that the yard?s glory is not just a thing of the past. In spite of its melancholy and sense of alienation, Onetti?s novel conveys, through its unique poetic language, a real sense of transcendence and hope. Allegorical, reflecting the decay and breakdown of Uruguayan society and modern urban life, The Shipyard is a landmark of Latin American literature.      About the Author      Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Juan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. For many years he worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. He lived in Madrid until his death in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"__sc-features-section\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"col col-sm-8 section\"\u003e\n          \u003cdiv class=\"features\"\u003e\n            \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n            \u003cli\u003eNew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMint Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDispatch same day for order received before 12 noon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuaranteed packaging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo quibbles returns\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n          \u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unbranded","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42972863004890,"sku":"S89893999","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/7339\/7443\/products\/51SX-u_T3gL._AC_US1500.jpg?v=1657866240","url":"https:\/\/atticdiscoveryshop.co.uk\/products\/the-shipyard-juan-carlos-onetti-paperback-book-acceptable","provider":"Attic Discovery Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}