A little lumpen novelita / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
| Author/creator | Bolaño, Roberto |
| Other author | Wimmer, Natasha translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2014. |
| Description | 109 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Novelita lumpen. English |
| Abstract | "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" -- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "Originally published in Spanish as Una novelita lumpen in 2002" -- Title page verso. |
| Genre/form | Psychological fiction. |
| LCCN | 2014018071 |
| ISBN | 9780811223355 |
| ISBN | 0811223353 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PQ8098.12.O38 N6813 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |