62 : a model kit / Julio Cortázar ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cortázar, Julio.

Contributor:

Rabassa, Gregory

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions classics

New Directions paperbook ; 894.

A New Directions classic

A New Directions paperbook ; 894

Standardized Title:

62. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Fiction.

Cities and towns.

Genre:

Fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Sixty-two

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2000.

Summary:

First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortazar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City". As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might seem to be 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".

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1972.

Translation of: 62 [i.e. Sesenta y dos] : modelo para armar.

ISBN:

0811214370

9780811214377

OCLC:

42935685