2666

English

ISBN: 0374100144

EAN: 9780374100148

Category: Fiction / Crime

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 11/13/2008

Synopsis: 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 Bola?o?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 Ju?rez--on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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2666

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.8 inches

Width: 6.37 inches

Length: 9.29 inches

Weight: 42.4 oz

Pages: 912