A little lumpen novelita
Book - 2014
"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" --
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
New Directions Books
2014.
- Language
- English
Spanish - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "Originally published in Spanish as Una novelita lumpen in 2002" -- Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 109 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780811223355
