The Atlas
Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction - a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralHailed by Newsday as the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today, William T. Vollmann has also established himself as an intrepid journalist willing to go to the hottest spots on the planet. Here he draws on these formidable talents to create a web of fifty-three interconnected tales, what he calls a piecemeal atlas of the world I think in.Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, Mogadishu to New York, and provocatively combini…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-025449-5
- EAN: 9780140254495
- Produktnummer: 8601602
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.1 cm x D3.8 cm 422 g
- Gewicht: 422
Über den Autor
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.
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