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Author : William T. Vollmann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847046
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Riding Toward Everywhere written by William T. Vollmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the hearts and minds of the world's poorest inhabitants (Poor People), and now turns his attentions to America itself, to our romanticizing of "freedom" and the ways in which we restrict the very freedoms we profess to admire. For Riding Toward Everywhere, Vollmann himself takes to the rails. His main accomplice is Steve, a captivating fellow trainhopper who expertly accompanies him through the secretive waters of this particular way of life. Vollmann describes the thrill and terror of lying in a trainyard in the dark, avoiding the flickering flashlights of the railroad bulls; the shockingly, gorgeously wild scenery of the American West as seen from a grainer platform; the complicated considerations involved in trying to hop on and off a moving train. It's a dangerous, thrilling, evocative examination of this underground lifestyle, and it is, without a doubt, one of Vollmann's most hauntingly beautiful narratives. Questioning anything and everything, subjecting both our national romance and our skepticism about hobo life to his finely tuned, analytical eye and the reality of what he actually sees, Vollmann carries on in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn, providing a moving portrait of this strikingly modern vision of the American dream.
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book You Bright and Risen Angels written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold allegorical epic that hovers somewhere between the surreal and the incredible. Vollmann tells of the battle for power between the inventors and developers of electricity and the insect world.
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060548193
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney's in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case studies, anecdotes, essays, theory, charts, graphs, photographs and drawings. Convinced that there is "a finite number of excuses" for violence and that some excuses "are more valid than others," Vollmann spent two decades consulting hundreds of sources, scrutinizing the thinking of philosophers, theologians, tyrants, warlords, military strategists, activists and pacifists. He also visited more than a dozen countries and war zones to witness violence firsthand -- sometimes barely escaping with his life. Vollmann makes deft use of these tools and experiences to create his Moral Calculus, a structured decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not.
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932416022
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932416022
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715635254
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rising Up and Rising Down written by William T. Vollmann and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rising Up and Rising Down' is William T. Vollman's meditation on the age-old conundrum: when is violence justified?
Author : William T. Vollmann
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ISBN 13 : 9781932416022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
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Author : Christopher K. Coffman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611495113
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book William T. Vollmann written by Christopher K. Coffman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion The essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and important living author in the US. His oeuvre includes not only outstanding work in numerous literary genres, but also global reportage, ethical treatises, paintings, photographs, and many other productions. His reputation as a daring traveler and his fascination with life on the margins have earned him an extra-literary renown unequaled in our time. Perhaps most importantly, his work is exceptional in relation to the literary moment. Vollmann is a member of a group of authors who are responding to the skeptical ironies of postmodernism with a reinvigoration of fiction’s affective possibilities and moral sensibilities, but he stands out even among this cohort for his prioritization of moral engagement, historical awareness, and geopolitical scope. Included in this book in addition to twelve scholarly critical essays are reflections on Vollmann by many of his peers, confidantes, and collaborators, including Jonathan Franzen, James Franco, and Michael Glawogger. With a preface by Larry McCaffery and an afterword by Michael Hemmingson, this book offers readings of most of Vollmann’s works, includes the first critical engagements with several key titles, and introduces a range of voices from international Vollmann scholarship.
