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Roberto Bolaño
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 Bolaño'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 Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
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Author
Roberto Bolaño
Pages
912
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2013-07-09
ISBN
1466804823 9781466804821
Ratings
Google: 5
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"4.5 stars.<br/><br/>This was a trip. Meandering, distracted, but somehow cohesive. I’m not sure I would have stuck with it if it had been published in 5 separate volumes, but it somehow works. Lots of compelling characters, but a lot to keep track of narratively. Maximalist postmodernism at its peak.<br/><br/>There was some utter repetitiveness in Part 4 that worked meta-fictitiously, but on the ground was a bit of an onslaught."
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Derek Boemler
"It started off great. I really enjoyed part I, nice prose, good character development. Interesting interactions. <br/>Part II and III were a bit boring, but manageable. So boring I forgot what it was about. One of them was a black sports journalist, I forgot about the other one. <br/>Part IV was so bad, I almost gave up reading but because I was looking forward to part V, I decided to work my way through endless repetitive descriptions of murdered women, raped (anal seems to do the trick for Roberto), with no clue of who did it. <br/>Part V was interesting. the character development of part I was missing, but the story came to a short of lose end at last. <br/>I'm not sure if this story needed 1050 pages, especially 350 pages of dead body descriptions are a bit too much for me. <br/>Maybe I just don't like South-American literature."
Lisa Mallinckrodt