62: A Model Kit

CORTAZAR, Julio; Rabassa, Gregory (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0714525316 / ISBN 13: 9780714525310

Published by Marion Boyars, London, 1976

About this Item

Paperback in very good condition. Scores to covers and leading corners of covers are a little creased. Crease along spine; page block and edges of pages are tanned. Minor foxing to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean, text is clear throughout. TA.

Seller Inventory # 518870

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 62: A Model Kit
• Publisher: Marion Boyars, London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714525316
• ISBN 13: 9780714525310
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Paperback in very good condition. Scores to covers and leading corners of covers are a little creased. Crease along spine; page block and edges of pages are tanned. Minor foxing to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean, text is clear throughout. TA

About the Author

Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to revolutionary Latin American politics.

Gregory Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, March 9, 1922. He grew up north of Hanover, NH, graduated from Dartmouth College, Class of 1944, Phi Beta Kappa, and got his MA, and PhD at Columbia University after serving as a U.S. Army, Infantry, Staff Sgt during World War II. One of Latin American literature’s most distinguished translators, Gregory Rabassa translated more than thirty novels from Spanish and Portuguese into English ― including works by Jorge Amado, Miguel Angel Asturias, Julio Cortázar, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Most notably, he translated Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among his many awards, Gregory Rabassa was a Fulbright Fellow, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, PEN. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Queens College/CUNY and The Graduate School/CUNY.