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Carr leads a miserable, lonely life. He is broke, his wife has left him, and a tedious job is his only solace. So when he sees a newspaper ad requesting a man "with unlimited ambition and a will to travel," he calls the number. This is how the protagonist, a hopeless intellectual, becomes part of a smuggling cartel in Santamaría (sometimes spelled Santa María in Onetti'—a fictional South American city that appears in many of Onetti's novels. Written like a diary, this novel neatly evokes a tropical city rul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More