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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64
EAN: 9780374100148
ISBN: 0374100144
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 912
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 78
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: It was one thing to read Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives last year and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language. It was still another to read it and know, from the advance reports of Spanish readers, that Bolaño's true masterpiece was still to come. And here it is: 2666, the 898-page novel he sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing Bolaño's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread. But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world, 2666, while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico. He takes his time getting there--he tells three often charming book-length tales before arriving at the murders--but when he does, in a brutal and quietly strange landscape where neither David Lynch nor Cormac McCarthy's Anton Chigurh would feel out of place, he writes with a horror that is both haunting and deeply humane. --Tom Nissley
Average Rating: 
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I bought this book because most of the reviews were interesting but ambiguous. The reviews just left me curious. Really, the scope of this book is large and hard to decribe but the reason I would suggest it is that it is completely fascinating. Bolano's characters are spellbinding, odd and they hold your attention so well it's almost hypnotic. Reading this book has the effect of driving up on a bad car accident where bodies are strewn in the road: you keep looking whether you mean to or not. ... Read More
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I agree that this is absolutely not for all. You need to be open minded, I want to say intellectual but I suppose I here am the exception as I cannot think of the word and hardly am calling those who dislike it dumb. An academia of sorts? Perhaps one who likes to be intellectually stimulated but has yet to find their own counterpart to fit that role... but in a sort of Chuck Palahniuk but not quick as raunchy way. lol. WOW ... did that make sense?
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Perhaps Bolano's own words best describes this work:
"Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, ... Read More
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Suppose you were lucky enough to be alive in Paris when Joyce's "Ulysses" first appeared or when Proust's Marcel arrived; wouldn't you feel blessed and lucky and amazed? Well, here's your chance: you are alive when the novels of Roberto Bolano are first appearing, the most important literary event in South American and world literature since the arrival of Gabriel Garcia Marques. Unfortunately, Bolano is not alive to share in your excitement but in his great novel, "2666" he clearly anticipated the posthumous ... Read More
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This is not an enjoyable/pleasurable book to read. Do not be misled by the 1st 100 pages or the other reviewers who would lead you to think it's a beautiful masterpiece. I am hard pressed to believe that the other reviewers even read this book. They gush on an on about how great it is, but every one of them fails to mention the overriding fact that this book is a GRUESOME and HORRIFICALLY VIOLENT book. The largest section of the book is basically 300+ pages of autopsy reports. You will read the words "vaginally ... Read More
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