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Last Stories and Other Stories
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Last Stories and Other Stories Paperback - 2015

by Vollmann, William T

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Penguin Books, 7/21/2015 12:00:01 A. paperback. Very Good. 1.6535 in x 8.3858 in x 5.5512 in. A clean and tight copy.
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  • Title Last Stories and Other Stories
  • Author Vollmann, William T
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Date 7/21/2015 12:00:01 A
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000129766
  • ISBN 9780143127567 / 014312756X
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.6 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 4.06 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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 2018

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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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 09/13/2015, Page 32

About the author

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.