A Little Lumpen Novelita

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

"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 and gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811223353
• ISBN13: 9780811223355
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"