Thirteen stories and thirteen epitaphs / William T. Vollmann.
This stunning new collection of stories confirms William T. Vollmann's growing reputation as the American writer whose books "tower over the work of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation, and sardonic wit&...
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| Other title: | 13 stories and 13 epitaphs. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
c1991.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The ghost of magnetism
- Epitaph for Yummy and Ken (Thailand)
- The bad girl
- Epitaph for Peggy (U.S.A.)
- The happy girls
- Epitaph for Mien (Vietnam)
- The bitch
- Epitaph for a jaguar (Belize)
- Divine men
- Epitaph for Lieutenant Vyacheslav Osdchi (Afghanistan)
- The handcuff manual
- Epitaph for a Rajasthani palace (India)
- Flowers in your hair
- Epitaph for a coward's heart (U.S.A.)
- Kindness
- Epitaph for Peggy's pimp (U.S.A.)
- My portrait, my love, my wife
- Epitaph for old friends (U.S.A.)
- Dialectics
- Epitaph for sixty dollars (U.S.A.)
- In Omaha
- Epitaph for President John F. Kennedy (U.S.A.)
- Tropicana
- Epitaph for a Ford Ltd. (Guatemala)
- The grave of lost stories
- Epitaph for a loved book (various places)