Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa–a fictional Juárez–on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.” Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student caring for her widowed, mentally unstable father. “Composed in the last two years of Bolaño’s life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope.
It’s the black-hole version of The Time Traveler’s Wife.” 2666 by Robert BolaÑo Until, that is, he encounters a tuff girl who’s not so easy to do away with. **Stephen King says: “No, not the twins from the Kubrick movie, but the targets of a serial killer who finds a time portal in Chicago during the Depression and jackrabbits his way through recent American history, killing women and taking trophies.
Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth.” He’s the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.ĭetermined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. “Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past.
**Included in Stephen King’s updated reading list for On Writing. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.” “Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved.
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