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William T Vollmann
A dense amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case studies, anecdotes, essays, theory, charts, graphs, photographs and drawings. The book attempts to bring a definitive resolution to a conundrum that has…
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Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann’s oeuvre is ambitious as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain…
William T. Vollmann
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central - a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians
In this fifth installment in his…
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Scott Rhodes
This first ever collection of selected interviews with one of America's most prolific and eclectic authors, William T. Vollmann. Editor Scott Rhodes collects eighteen interviews that covers the span of…
Michael Hemmingson
In this comprehensive bibliography, Michael Hemmingson has assembled a list of all editions of Vollmann’s books in every language, as well as every short story, every essay, book reviews, and…
This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview of his writings through scholarly essays and nonscholarly reflections that…
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William T Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This title presents a study that traces his career with chapters…
Perseus
Unpublished essays and correspondence, as well as selections from An Afghanistan Pciture Show and other major works, by the daring journalist and novelist reveals a never-before-seen side to the powerful…
The third volume of the author’s epic saga of North America peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas and John Smith to recreate the story of the founding of the Jamestown…
This critical study offers a port of entry into Vollmann’s fiction. The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel, and the venture of the 19th-century English explorer John Franklin, revisiting the Gothic…
In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, inspiration…
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Highly personal and philosophical … the next best thing to reading Copernicus. -Publishers Weekly
From the author of Europe Central comes a journalistic tour de force set along the Mexican-American border.
William T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the stately ancient…
Originally published: New York: Viking, 1990.
Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central
Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of…
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. In his work, he offers readers a gorgeously written immersion in the trainhopping, hobo life. 66…
Maps and illustrations by the author –Verso.
The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the…
The second volume of William T. Vollmann’s epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and…
Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life commits suicide, he clings to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something…
In his newest work, Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures associated with the warring authoritarian cultures…
Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, from Jerusalem to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, these 53 interconnected tales examine poverty, violence, and loss, even as…
Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.–Booklist
William T. Vollmann, the National Book Award-winning author of…
A National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty. Two 16-page photo inserts.
A bold allegorical epic that hovers somewhere between the surreal and the incredible. Vollmann tells of the battle for power between the inventors and developers of electricity and the insect…
Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary…
This stunning new collection of stories confirms William T. Vollmann’s growing reputation as the American writer whose books tower over the work of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous…
Bernard Wolfe
On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. The author…
A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring…
A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. Vollmann.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.
Danilo Kis,Danilo Kies
Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century … Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature. Partisan Review
Danilo Kis
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