A little lumpen novelita /

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Author / Creator:Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003, author.
Uniform title:Novelita lumpen. English
Imprint:New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2014.
Description:109 pages ; 21 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10085726
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Other authors / contributors:Wimmer, Natasha, translator.
ISBN:9780811223355
0811223353
Notes:Translated from the Spanish.
Summary:"A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women. "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime": so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower... Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive short chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita--one of the first novels Roberto Bolano ever published--delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one's fate" --

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Call Number: PQ8098.12.O38N6813 2014
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