The Royal Family
A Novel
A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco's Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralIn The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, Irene--who happens to be married to his brother John, an ambitious contract lawyer--commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something precious, Henry enters into a new life of nightmare beauty a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-22156-3
- EAN: 9781101221563
- Produktnummer: 17992567
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 800 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'585 KB
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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