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The royal family

William T. Vollmann

(Penguin books, . Fiction)

Penguin Books, 2001

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"First piblished in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000"--T.p. verso

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Description

A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco's Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, Irene--who happens to be married to his brother John, an ambitious contract lawyer--commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something precious, Henry enters into a new life of nightmare beauty and degradation as he attempts to track down the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes. Crafted out of language by turns eloquent, humorous, sensual, and obscene, and full of vividly rendered depictions of low-life bars, office politics, and hobo camps, here are Vollmann's familiar but ever surprising characters--the seekers, the vigilantes, the hypocrites, the sex workers. He has woven their stories into a vivid and unforgettable novel about the eerie paradoxes of possession and loss.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA5325752X
  • ISBN
    • 0670891673
    • 014100200X
  • LCCN
    99056587
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 780 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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