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The Rainbow Stories Paperback - 1992
by William T. Vollmann
Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
Summary
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live outside the law and and the clear light of the every day. Set in landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and the seamy underbelly of San Francisco, these daring and innovative tales are laced with Vollman's fertile imagination. The Rainbow Stories ushers us into a world that bears an awful yet hypnotic resemblance to that of our deepest nightmares, confirming Vollman's reputation as a dark visionary of contemporary fiction.
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Bending and leaning on his crutches, a patient dwindled down the white glassy corridor, trying so hard to follow the red line that he was a joy to watch.
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- Title The Rainbow Stories
- Author William T. Vollmann
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date July 1, 1992
- ISBN 9780140171549 / 0140171541
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.52 x 1.12 in (21.44 x 14.02 x 2.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Hippies, Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 06/01/1992, Page 0
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