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2666

By Bolaño, Roberto|Wimmer, Natasha
2666
With "2666," Bolano joins the ambitious overachievers of the 20th-century novel . . . who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand . . . summation of their culture.--"The Washington Post."

Details

Authors: Bolaño, Roberto|Wimmer, Natasha
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780312429218
ISBN10: 0312429215
Page Count: 912
Dimensions: 5.4x1.7x8.1
Publisher: Picador USA

Strand Notes

Widely acclaimed, 2666 was composed in the last two years of Roberto Bolano's life. Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student caring for her widowed mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juarez - on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. Audacious, impassioned, and profoundly imaginative, bursting with melancholy and horror. A New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008. 912p. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.

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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolao's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa--a fictional Jurez--on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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