2666 (First Printing of the Boxed Set Edition)

Bolano, Roberto

ISBN 10: 0374531552 / ISBN 13: 9780374531553

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 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. Other than a tiny dent to the top left side of the slipcase, this is, A fine collectable set. As new. Unopened and unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 2666 (First Printing of the Boxed Set Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0374531552
• ISBN 13: 9780374531553
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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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 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.

About the Author

ROBERTO BOLAÑO was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. NATASHA WIMMER 's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by The Washington Post and The New York Times.