New Releases by William T Vollmann

William T Vollmann is the author of Des putes pour Gloria (2000), Across the Divide (2000), Storie di farfalle (1999), Para Gloria (1998), Les nuits du papillon (1998).

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Des putes pour Gloria

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Des putes pour Gloria
Un homme, dans une cabine publique, parle à une femme, Gloria, et il n''est pas certain qu''elle revienne. De toute façon, la cabine téléphonique ne marche plus et Jimmy sait que pour récupérer Gloria, il lui faudra " visiter " les prostituées qui hantent le Tenderloin, le quartier chaud de San Fransisco. Au fil des jours, il pille ainsi l''âme et le corps des putains. Mèches de cheveux, regards, attitudes, sexes, souvenirs : un étrange puzzle féminin prend corps. Gloria est-elle un amour d''enfance ou une prostituée ? Peu importe, puisque pour exister, elle doit renaître des cendres humaines dispersées en chacune des âmes perdues... Poème lyrique de la rue, Des putes pour Gloria est aussi un voyage extraordinaire au pays du désespoir, la quête d''une impossible rédemption, dans la tradition de Hubert Selby Jr.

Across the Divide

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Storie di farfalle

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Les nuits du papillon

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Les nuits du papillon
"Dans la boîte de nuit, on n''y voyait rien. L''air était brunnoir comme l''arbre qu''on lui avait montré à Choeung Ek, l''arbre dont l''écorce était imprégnée de sang séché à l''endroit où les Khmers rouges fracassaient les crânes de bébés. A tâtons, il trouva une table poisseuse de bière renversée. - Vanna est là ? - Vous voulez bière Tiger ? - Non. Vanna. Fille Je veux Vanna. - Non. Non. Non. Vous trop trompez, mon ami. - Je veux me marier avec Vanna. J''ai acheté anneau d''or pour elle. Empoignant le journaliste par le bras, le mac, serveur ou videur ou quoi qu''il fût, le flanqua à la porte. Il eut le temps de se retourner vers les visages qui l''observaient dans l''ombre, faces de chats jaunes et grasses. " Un journaliste américain en quête d''amour s''éprend d''une prostituée cambodgienne. Dans une région du monde ravagée par la pauvreté, la maladie et les luttes sanguinaires, il se laisse progressivement glisser vers la mort. Un conte exotique, érotique et provocateur qui illustre le singulier talent d''écriture d''un auteur considéré comme l''un des représentants les plus significatifs d''une nouvelle génération de romanciers américains.

The Atlas

release date: Jun 01, 1997
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 Central Hailed 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 combining autobiography with invention, fantasy with reportage, these stories examine poverty, violence, and loss even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, the infinitely precious pain of love. The Atlas brings to life a fascinating array of human beings: an old Inuit walrus-hunter, urban aborigines in Sydney, a crack-addicted prostitute, and even Vollmann himself.

Pornes gia ten Gkloria

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Istories enos petalouda

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
The settings for the stories in Vollmann''s collection range from Las Vegas to Bangkok, but his protagonists share traits in common. They are the desperate, the haunted, those who have reached the end of their ropes and are trying to make sense of a world that has failed them. The prostitutes and pimps, the addicts and the skinheads, who are the subjects of Vollmann''s stories are all engaged in larger journeys of self-discovery. The hope that the next fix, the next night of sex, the next trip abroad will finally lead them to an always allusive internal peace.

Butterfly Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Butterfly Stories
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.

Fathers and Crows

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Fathers and Crows
The second volume of a saga that chronicles the relations between native Americans and their colonizers begins four hundred years ago in the Great Lakes region, where Jesuit priests martyr themselves to save the disease-ridden villages of the Huron.--Amazon.com.

Whores for Gloria, Or, Everything was Beautiful Until the Girls Got Anxious

release date: Jan 01, 1991

The Grave of Lost Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1990

The Rainbow Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1989
The Rainbow Stories
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 Vollman''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 Vollman''s reputation as a dark visionary of contemporary fiction.

The Tale of the Dying Lungs

release date: Jan 01, 1989

You Bright and Risen Angels

release date: Dec 01, 1988
You Bright and Risen Angels
A bold allegorical epic that hovers somewhere between the surreal and the incredible. Vollmann tells of the battle for power between the inventors and developers of electricity and the insect world.
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