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Loading... El atlas (Spanish Edition) (original 1996; edition 2017)by William T. Vollmann (Author)
Work InformationThe Atlas by William T. Vollmann (1996)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Video review: https://youtu.be/KzgwV45aFAw ( ) Sweet Reader, Allow me to corral this stampede of kittens. One Blind Billy was so in love. Then his "wife" left him. There wasn't a ceremony as such, he just knew it. This was love for Lifetime movie Network, it lasted as long as he bought her drinks and paid for the hotel room. She was gone. Blind Billy then had horrific heartache in his penis. He had to win her back. Traveling through more time zones than a Jim Jarmusch film, Blind Billy discovered some indelible truths. Clean water and being exempt from shellfire are overrated. The quest isn't too bad when carrying hard currency. Prostitutes are wonderful creatures, dreamily lost and not suffering any issues from prior trauma or violation. Blind Billy also finds opportunities to digest and extrapolate history. He interweaves such with bad poetry about whimpering sunsets and ocher teardrops. He is truly an amazing writer. This is not his strongest work, but is representative of what he probably could produce while you were finishing watching the DVD edition of 24, Season 2. More prolific than Stephen King, and on par as a travel writer with Theroux. The man is a modern marvel, a national treasure, and made me wish I went to Deep Springs for my first two years of college. He sure the hell leads an interesting life. no reviews | add a review
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In The Atlas, William T. Vollmann presents his vision of our planet at the cusp, with old conflicts smoldering on and new miseries and estrangements multiplying. Bosnia, Phnom Penh, Jerusalem, New York, Mogadishu, the Arctic, a bazaar of fortune-tellers in Burma, a robber-infested disco in Madagascar - against these backdrops, Vollmann's tales live their own various and wildly different lives, from fable to surrealistic portrait to reportage. Above all, it is the human beings in this book who engage us: the old walrus hunter, the crack-addicted prostitute whose children have been taken away from her, the boxer brought in to lose, the drunken gypsy, and from time to time, of course, the author himself. Through their eyes, Vollmann writes of memory, oppression, loneliness, war, the thrill of the alien, and the infinitely precious pain of love. Arranged as a huge thematic palindrome, The Atlas showcases Vollmann's ability to build strange structures, sonnets composed of stories instead of words. No library descriptions found. |
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