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Whores for Gloria Paperback - 1994
by Vollmann, William T
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- Paperback
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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- 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.
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First line
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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- Publishers Weekly, 01/24/1994, Page 0