The Royal Family: A Novel - Brossura

Vollmann, William T.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 014100200X ISBN 13: 9780141002002

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2001

Riassunto

In a vivid novel about the bizarre paradoxes of possession and loss, failing San Francisco private detective Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the woman he loves, his brother's wife, Irene. Reprint.

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L'autore:

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award.  He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.

Product Description:

Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life commits suicide, he clings to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something precious, Henry enters into a new life of nightmare beauty and degradations as he attempts to track down the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 014100200X
• ISBN 13: 9780141002002
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 800