Europe central, Vollmann, William T.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Royal Family, The
ISBN: 014100200X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141002002
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Описание: Henry Tyler is a failing PI in San Francisco. When the woman he loves commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn grief and guilt into something precious, he employs his professional skills to track down the 'Queen of Prostitutes' - a figure also being sought by his brother but for very different reasons.

Vivid and unforgettable.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: You Bright And Risen Angels
ISBN: 0140110879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140110876
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Rainbow Stories, The
ISBN: 0140171541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140171549
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Описание: The debut collection of stories from the National Book-Award winning author of Europe Central

From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live outside the law and and the clear light of the every day. Set in landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and the seamy underbelly of San Francisco, these daring and innovative tales are laced with Vollmann's fertile imagination.

The Rainbow Stories ushers us into a world that bears an awful yet hypnotic resemblance to that of our deepest nightmares, confirming Vollmann's reputation as a dark visionary of contemporary fiction.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Atlas, The
ISBN: 0140254498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140254495
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Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Rising Up and Rising Down
ISBN: 0060548193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060548193
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11830.00 T
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Описание: The authorized, abridged paperback edition of the 3,000-page, seven-volume magnum opus, which was recently nominated for the NBCC Award, here is Vollmann’s meditation on the age-old conundrum: when is violence justified?

Автор: Vollmann William T.
Название: The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War
ISBN: 0143109405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109402
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 21460.00 T
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Описание: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central - a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians

Watch for Vollmann's new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018

In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War.

Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.

Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Ice-Shirt, The
ISBN: 0140131965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140131963
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Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Argall
ISBN: 0142001503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142001509
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Описание: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central - a hugely original fictional history of Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Jamestown colony in Virginia

Watch for Vollmann's new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018

In Argall, the third novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T. Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language and gritty realism in an attempt to dig beneath the legend surrounding Pocahontas, John Smith, and the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia-as well as the betrayals, disappointments, and atrocities behind it. With the same panoramic vision, mythic sensibility, and stylistic daring that he brought to the previous novels in the Seven Dreams series--hailed upon its inception as "the most important literary project of the '90s" (The Washington Post)--Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Native Americans and Europeans in the New World. In reconstructing America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle, Vollmann does nothing less than reinvent the American novel.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Rifles, The
ISBN: 0140176233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140176230
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: Fathers And Crows
ISBN: 014016717X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140167177
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Vollmann William T.
Название: No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
ISBN: 0399563490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399563492
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Описание: A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. Vollmann

In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age, from poverty to violence to the dark soul of American imperialism as it has played out on the U.S./Mexico border. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come--the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the contaminated no-go zones and sad ghost towns of Fukushima, Japan, beginning shortly after the tsunami and reactor meltdowns of 2011. Equipped first only with a dosimeter and then with a scintillation counter, he measured radiation and interviewed tsunami victims, nuclear evacuees, anti-nuclear organizers and pro-nuclear utility workers.

Featuring Vollmann's signature wide learning, sardonic wit, and encyclopedic research, No Immediate Danger, whose title co-opts the reassuring mantra of official Japanese energy experts, builds up a powerful, sobering picture of the ongoing nightmare of Fukushima.

Watch for No Good Alternative, the second volume of Carbon Ideologies, focusing on human experiences related to coal mining and oil and natural gas production - coming in June 2018.

Автор: Vollmann, William T.
Название: No Immediate Danger
ISBN: 0399563512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399563515
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Описание: "The most honest book about climate change yet." --The Atlantic

"The Infinite Jest of climate books." --The Baffler

A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. Vollmann

In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age, from poverty to violence to the dark soul of American imperialism as it has played out on the U.S./Mexico border. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come--the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the contaminated no-go zones and sad ghost towns of Fukushima, Japan, beginning shortly after the tsunami and reactor meltdowns of 2011. Equipped first only with a dosimeter and then with a scintillation counter, he measured radiation and interviewed tsunami victims, nuclear evacuees, anti-nuclear organizers and pro-nuclear utility workers.

Featuring Vollmann's signature wide learning, sardonic wit, and encyclopedic research, No Immediate Danger, whose title co-opts the reassuring mantra of official Japanese energy experts, builds up a powerful, sobering picture of the ongoing nightmare of Fukushima.