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Whores for Gloria

Whores for Gloria Paperback - 1994

by Vollmann, William T

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From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore--a woman who may or may not really exist.

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New York: Penguin Books, 1994. First printing, Trade paperback, Fine,. Daniel Rembert. New York: Penguin Books:, 1994. First printing, Trade paperback, Fine, 154 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Daniel Rembert
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  • Title Whores for Gloria
  • Author Vollmann, William T
  • Illustrator Daniel Rembert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - First printing, Trade paperback, Fine,
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 72858
  • ISBN 9780140231571 / 0140231579
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.03 x 0.48 in (19.79 x 12.78 x 1.22 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Prostitutes
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crows comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, Jimmy, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore, a woman who may or may not exist save in Jimmy's rambling dreams. Gloria's image seems distilled from memory and fantasy and the fragments of whatever Jimmy can buy from the other whores: their sex, their stories--all the unavailing dreams of love and salvation among the drinkers and addicts who haunt San Francisco's Tenderloin District.

From the publisher

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

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We all know the story of the whore who, finding her China white to be less and less reliable a friend no matter how much of it she injected into her arm, recalled in desperation the phrase "shooting the shit", and so filled the needle with her own watery excrement and pumped it in, producing magnificent abscesses.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 01/24/1994, Page 0

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.