Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means - Rilegato

Vollmann, William T.

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ISBN 10: 0060548185 ISBN 13: 9780060548186

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2004

Riassunto

An abridged addition of the National Book Critic Circle Award finalist author's three-thousand-page, seven-volume work is a meditation on the possible justification of violence that is based on his war-zone observations and draws on the theories of numerous philosophers, theologians, military strategists, activists, and other thinkers. 30,000 first printing.

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William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He is also the author of Poor People, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin and Granta. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.

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Book by Vollmann William T

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060548185
• ISBN 13: 9780060548186
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 733