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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. Was all right and all, but if I wanted a real book, see, maybe I'd like to check out this Bolaño fellow with him. I have very little patience for books I'm not enjoying and I have no reluctance to put a book down forever if I'm not getting "pleasure"* from it. Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora, on the Mexican-U.S. No other book has done to me what 2666 did. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. 2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously in Spanish in 2004. When #occupygaddis was proposed on Twitter, I posted it to Facebook, where Pat suggested that J.R. Now that I have that distance, no tangible perspective has come other than this: nothing else I've read since has been 2666. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. Certainly, it bears many attributes of a work of long fiction – memorable characters, richly evoked locations, abundant action, recurrent themes. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. Chilean author Roberto Bolaño left behind a surfeit of unfinished manuscripts after his death, but nothing was more intriguing than a reported sixth part of 2666, his bestselling magnum opus. The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages. Calling Roberto Bolano's 2666 a novel is somewhat misleading. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d.