Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.--Todd Shy "San Francisco Chronicle"

A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty.--James Yeh "The Faster Times"

One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page.--Marilis Hornidge "The Lincoln County News"

...this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.--Emma Hagestadt "The Independent"

A Book of the Year: The Skating Rink leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image.--Siddhartha Deb "Times Literary Supplement"

The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews.... Deserves to be read widely.--Rosemary Aud Franklin "World Literature Today"

Passion, mystery, seedy bars, and Bolaño's Olympian irony are here, as always.-- "The Village Voice"

A stunning work of fiction. It is infused with a gritty poeticism and a unique worldview.--Don Sjoerdsma "Northwest Phoenix [Indiana University]"

Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolaño novels.--Savannah ("Savvy") Jones "SirReadaLot.org"

This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far...Bolaño in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing.--Wyatt Mason "The New York Times Book Review"

The Skating Rink...like much of what [Bolaño] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland.--Anthony Cummins "The Observer"