Argall: Volume Three of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes - Brossura

Vollmann, William T.

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ISBN 10: 0142001503 ISBN 13: 9780142001509

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2002

Riassunto

The third volume of the author's epic saga of North America peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas and John Smith to recreate the story of the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia with gritty realism. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"No book since John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor has so thoroughly transported readers back in time to our nation's origins. Prepare yourself to confront the political and moral compromises that got us where we are today. You won't find a better guide."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Argall may bring us closer to the truth of America's first interracial romance than a thousand biographies written on the subject." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Readers are likely to come away from this story...appreciating the mordant resonance with writers from Defoe to Conrad." —The Washington Post

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.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142001503
• ISBN 13: 9780142001509
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768