Last Stories and Other Stories
by Vollmann, William T
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0670015970
- ISBN 13
- 9780670015979
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About This Item
Viking Books, 2014. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Synopsis
Supernaturally-tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart, while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.
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- G0670015970I5N10
- Title
- Last Stories and Other Stories
- Author
- Vollmann, William T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0670015970
- ISBN 13
- 9780670015979
- Publisher
- Viking Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
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