WHORES FOR GLORIA
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.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-82772-2
- EAN: 9780307827722
- Produktnummer: 15725516
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'975 KB
Über den Autor
William T. Vollmann has won the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.
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