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Article: Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs.(Brief Article)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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Vollmann's newest book is, like The Rainbow Stories, a linked collection of novellas and stories, and like his earlier book is peopled mostly by the demimonde of San Francisco, with a few set in Third World locales. "These stories are all epitaphs," Vollmann writes in an author's note, and there is a valedictory, memorial air hanging over most of these pieces as Vollmann tells autobiographical tales of people he's known. His photographer friend Ken Miller appears in many of them - Dean Moriarty to Vollmann's Sal Paradise - as does the mournful Elaine Suicide, the focus (heroine is hardly the word) of the two longest and best stories in the collection, "The Ghost of ...
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... ... Poor People, renowned author William Vollmann (winner of the 2005 National Book Award ... people he encounters around the world. Vollmann's compassionate and ruminative account ... definitive answers. "For me," writes Vollmann, "poverty is not mere deprivation ...
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