Whores For Gloria
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Whores For Gloria
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2013-01-02
Whores For Gloria written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-02 with Fiction categories.
With his first three works of fiction—the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories—William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and T.C. Boyle. His new novel is the story of Jimmy, who has been deserted by his lover, a prostitute by the name of Gloria. In the despair of his loneliness, and his drunken grief, he reassembles Gloria’s presence out of whatever he can buy from the hookers on the street—the fragments of their lives and dreams, and locks of hair they are willing to share for a price. In his search for these snatches of intimacy he meets the hustlers, drunks, and prostitutes of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district: Candy, who beats her customers when they ask for it but refuses to let them call her a bitch; Snake, who pimps his wife; Nicole, whose job it is to give men AIDS; Jack, who shoots his woman’s earnings into his arm but still likes Chopin even though he doesn’t have a record player; and Gloria, who may or may not be a figment of Jimmy’s imagination. Vollmann writes with explosive power of the inner city, unflinching in the way he confronts the solitude of the homeless and unloved, the insulted and the injured of skid-row America. His exhilarating, high-voltage style and lyric language touch the heart and retrieve a jubilant integrity from the harsh struggles of his characters. Here is a world of harrowing truth, beautifully expressed by a writer of prodigious gifts.
Whores For Gloria Or Everything Was Beautiful Until The Girls Got Anxious
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 1991
Whores For Gloria Or Everything Was Beautiful Until The Girls Got Anxious written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Prostitutes categories.
Rainbow Stories
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1992-07-01
Rainbow Stories written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with categories.
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 San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
Europe Central
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-11-14
Europe Central written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-14 with Fiction categories.
A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award. In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on human experience during wartime. Through interwoven narratives that paint a composite portrait of these two battling leviathans and the monstrous age they defined, Europe Central captures a chorus of voices both real and fictional— a young German who joins the SS to fight its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the Stalinist assaults upon his work and life.
Last Stories And Other Stories
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Last Stories And Other Stories written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Royal Family
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Royal Family written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Great Britain categories.
Butterfly Stories
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1993
Butterfly Stories written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Butterfly Stories follows a dizzying cradle-to-grave hunt for love that takes the narrator from the comfortable confines of suburban America to the killing fields of Cambodia, where he falls in love with Vanna, a prostitute from Phnom Penh. Here, Vollmann's gritty style perfectly serves his examination of sex, violence, and corruption.
The Lucky Star
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-02-18
The Lucky Star written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Fiction categories.
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 margins of society In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are.
The Book Of Dolores
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Author : William T. Vollmann
language : en
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Release Date : 2013-10-29
The Book Of Dolores written by William T. Vollmann and has been published by powerHouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-29 with Photography categories.
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 beauties of Japanese Noh theater, and made friends with street prostitutes all over the world-all in the interest of learning a little more about life. Now in his mid-fifties, Vollmann sets out on what may well be impossible for a heterosexual genetic male: to envision himself as a woman. In these photographs, block prints, and watercolor drawings, he portrays his alter ego, Dolores, with whimsicality, and sometimes with cruelty-for Dolores would like to be attractive, or at least to "pass," but the ageing male body in which she remains confined requires lowered expectations. Meanwhile, the drawings and block prints, composed with the artist's glasses off, show Dolores as she imagines herself to be. The Book of Dolores brings the genre of self-portraits to a new level of vulnerability and bravery. In the process, it offers virtuoso performances of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including the seductively difficult gum bichromate method. Each section of the book is accompanied by an essay on motives and techniques.
Whores And Other Feminists
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Author : Jill Nagle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Whores And Other Feminists written by Jill Nagle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Art categories.
Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the academy, this collection draws from traditional feminisms, postmodern feminism, queer theory, and sex radicalism. It stretches the boundaries of contemporary feminism, holding accountable both traditional feminism for stigmatizing sex workers, and also the sex industry for its sexist practices.