62: A Model Kit

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ISBN-10: 0811214370
ISBN-13: 9780811214377
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/17/2000
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.20" W, 0.74" H

62: A Model Kit

byJulio Cortázar
Translator: Gregory Rabassa

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Price: $18.95

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As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo. This cityscape, as Carlos Fuentes describes it, “seems drawn up by the Marx Brothers with an assist from Bela Lugosi!” It is the meeting place for a wild assortment of bohemians in a novel described by The New York Times as “Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious.” Library Journal has said 62: A Model Kit is “a highly satisfying work by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time.”

  • Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels in 1914 to Argentinian parents and raised in Argentina, where as a young man he worked as a secondary-school teacher, university professor, and professional translator. In 1951 he moved to Paris, where he earned his primary living as a translator for UNESCO. He is regarded internationally as a modern master of the short story and his novel Hopscotch is considered a seminal work of the Latin American fiction "boom" of the 1960s. Cortázar's other books in English include Blow-Up and Other Stories, 62: A Model Kit, The Winners, All Fires the Fire, A Manual for Manuel, Cronopios and Famas, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much, A Certain Lucas, Unreasonable Hours, and Around the Day in Eighty Worlds. He died in Paris in 1984
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811214370
ISBN-13: 9780811214377
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/17/2000
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.20" W, 0.74" H
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