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Drace (dracenines) | 7415 comments The paperback edition of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño has an incorrect description and publication date. The date should be September 4, 2009 instead of July 4. The correct description (taken from the publisher website) is as follows:

Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 has been hailed across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary.

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But there is a darker side to the town. As in the real town of Juárez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate . . .

As 2666 progresses, as the sense of conspiracy grows, as the shadow of the apocalypse draws closer, Santa Teresa becomes an emblem of the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century European history.


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Greg | 9188 comments Done.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7415 comments Greg wrote: "Done."

Thanks for the help.


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