62 A Model Kit Author:Julio Cortazar From Library Journal: One of the great writers from Latin America, Argentine Cortazar's surrealistic novel is described as a type of guidebook for living in the "big city," which could be any city in any country in the world. The plot unfolds through the lives of a cast of unusual characters. Reviews ...enthusiastically recommended for anyone in... more »terested in pushing the literary envelope as exemplified by the format of the novel. -- Bookwatch, November 2000 Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder...and, probably, little by little, he would lose his hair. -- Pablo Neruda Cortazar breaks open ready-made perceptions by submitting them to surreal perspectives. -- Time Out Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious. -- The New York Times« less