William T. Vollmann

A Critical Study and Seven Interviews

By: Michael Hemmingson

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Paperback | 15 July 2009

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Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell--William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted to each of his novels, as well as his short stories and major nonfiction. Vollmann is a writer of obsessions, and this study concentrates on three of them--freedom, redemption, and prostitution--while arguing that the author that dwells on them is worthy of being called one of our greatest living American writers. Also included are seven interviews spanning the years 1991-2007 that reinforce the persistence of Vollmann's attraction to these themes.

Industry Reviews

"a lively and frank guide to Vollmann's substantial and kaleidoscopic oeuvre...electrifying interviews"-Booklist; "a worthy critical study"-Raintaxi.com.

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