Archive for July 3, 2009
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
I was coming to Maine for the summer and wanted to get lost in a big thick weighty book, a book that would be wasted in the city where it would be not so much attacked as toyed with. How can you read a 900 page book but to attack it? You can’t nibble at it. You have to take blocks of time and sit down in a quiet place and rest the tome on your lap and go after it, like a loon after a harbor sardine. I had wanted to read 2666 since it came out in English last year (from the Spanish), published posthumously a year after Bolaño’s death. Now was the time.
July 3, 2009
Tags: 800+ Pages, Mystery, Writing Life Posted in: Latino Fiction, Literary, Mexico, Top Pick, Translated, murder mystery 
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