The Rainbow Stories - William T. Vollmann

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Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters. nThe debut collection of stories from the National Book-Award winning author of Europe Central nFrom 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 Vollmanns fertile imagination. The Rainbow Stories ushers us into a world that bears an awful yet hypnotic resemblance to that of our deepest nightmares, confirming Vollmanns reputation as a dark visionary of contemporary fiction.n

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178.56 ^RON

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