2666 (First Printing of the Boxed Set Edition)

Bolano, Roberto

ISBN 10: 0374531552 / ISBN 13: 9780374531553

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2008

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. 898 pages. Published simultaneously with the Hardcover Edition. Three colorful softcover volumes in pictorial box. Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. Translator Natasha Wimmer has done a extraordinary job. Considered a contemporary classic, it is a masterful work by the late Chilian-Mexican novelist. Becoming extremely rare, in that the softcover Slipcase Set will not be reissued once all the copies are sold, and the slipcase edition had a smaller print run than the hardcover. In the publishers original shrinkwrap. New, still sealed. A fine collectable set. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box. Seller Inventory # 2910

Bibliographic Details

Title: 2666 (First Printing of the Boxed Set ...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A posthumous masterwork by a prize-winning founder of the infrarealist poetry movement finds such characters as an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interacting in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared. Simultaneous.

Review:

'A masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year. 2666: The Best Book of 2008.'