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Full Circle: A South American Journey (Lonely Planet Journeys) by: Luis Sepulveda |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 918.0439 EAN: 9780864424655 ISBN: 0864424655 Label: Lonely Planet Publications Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 1996-10 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Studio: Lonely Planet Publications Sales Rank: 1090821 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Full Circle invites us to accompany Chilean writer Luis Sepulvéda on a "journey without a fixed itinerary". Whatever his subject - brutalities suffered under Pinochet's dictatorship, sleepy tropical towns visited in exile, or the landscapes of legendary Patagonia - Sepulvéda is an unflinchingly honest yet lyrical toryteller. extravagant characters and extraordinary situations are memorably evoked: gauchos organising a tournament of lies, a scheming heiress on the lookout for a husband, a pilot with a corpse on board his plane... Part autobiography, part travel memoir, Full Circle brings us the distinctive voice of one of South America's most compelling writers Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - wanderlust reactivateda very honest and coolly written book. While the narrative appears disjointed at first, one realizes that if the author were to write all the details in chrono sequence, given that he has been travelling for years, it would have been several fat volumes. This is not srictly a travelogue in the sense of day 1 we did tis, day 2 that happened.. rather, its a collection of incidents and events that took place in the couirse of the author's travels, that illuminate life in the various places he has been. I feel like hitting the road again, with no fixed destination in mind, no final goal, timeless... Rating: - A very entertaining and well wriiten book.Full Circle is a book that cannot be read only once. The stories become like old freinds and are joys to visit with again and again. Rating:  - It was a difficult read...This book was disjointed. It was really hard to follow what was going on and where the author was going and why. The book seemed to be a compilation of miscellaneous stories about his life. Some of the stories made sense, while others were out of place and unintelligible. This made for a difficult read. Rating: - A book of the past, present and futureFull circle details the past and the ceratin present of sepulveda's life, his torture and exile from his country because of his belief and his travels through South America as he cannot return. The story begins and ends with his aim to try and get to the village of his grandfather's birth in Spain and to see if he has any surviving relatives. A book that touched me in a way no other book has ever done and none probably will, and belive me, for once that is no understatement. |
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