Cortazar's classic 1968 novel about an unnamed European "city" is finally back in print as a New Directions Classic. First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, <I>62: A Model Kit</I> 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 appear as 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 <I>The New York Times</I> as "Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious." <I>Library Journal</I> has said <I>62: A Model Kit</I> is "a highly satisfying work by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time."