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by Rafael Reig (Author) "To BRING HIS many sufferings to an end I didn't know whether to hug him or plug him, to put a bullet in his brains..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail (6 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852428708
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852428709
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.9 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 622,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'The melancholic private-eye Carlos Clot is the new Spanish anti-hero... one of the funniest and most provocative novels of recent years. A crazy novel... short and very sweet' Rosa Mora, El Pais 'Blood in the Saddle is a delirious surprise... a tour-de-force of intelligence that confirms a brilliant, uncommon sense of humour' Pilar Castro, El Mundo 'One of the most pleasant surprises of the year and, I might say, of our times' Luis Garcia, Literaturas.com 'The parameters of genre literature were invented to be transgressed and Reig breaks with the lot: detective novels, science-fiction, Westerns, schmaltzy love stories, and meta-literature itself' Saul Fernandez"

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4.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative Crime Fic in an Alternative History? Yes!, 17 Mar 2009
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Readers of Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime series will find much that is familiar in Rafael Reig's Blood on the Saddle. Based in a Spain where petroleum has run out and the Americans invaded, there are broken families and escaped literary characters from books. There's a company that appears to dominate the economic skyline by owning the patent on virtually every genetic modification around. There is some sad, sad, shagging. There's alcoholism, and there's some sparkling humour. This is a rather peculiar novel, not entirely crime fiction, and not quite social criticism, and not quite science fiction. The detective is a man named Clot (why Clot? I didn't quite figure that out.) is the usual laconic PI, a loner. He appears to solve crimes entirely by accident, but hey, however you do it, it's good, right? There's a novel (also called Blood on the Saddle) which cannot be finished until Clot recovers a character who has leapt right out of the pages of the book and escaped: the author is collapsing with alcohol poisoning. It's all heady and surreal and ironic, and doesn't lose much in translation. Neat stuff.
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