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Conversations with William T. Vollmann (Hardcover)
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Conversations with William T. Vollmann (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T.
Vollmann's oeuvre-which includes a "prostitution trilogy," a
septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North
Americans and European colonists, and a more than
three-thousand-page philosophical treatise on violence-is ambitious
as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects
twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain where
his career first took flight, to in-depth visits to his writing and
art studio in Sacramento, California. Throughout these
conversations, Vollmann (b. 1959) speaks with candor and wit on
such Subjects as grief and guilt in his work, his love of guns and
his experience of war, the responsibilities of the artist as
witness, the benefits of looking out into the world beyond the
confines of one's horizon, the limitations of what literature can
achieve, and how we can speak to the future. Bringing to the fore
several expanded, unpublished, and hard-to-find interviews, this
volume offers a valuable Set of perspectives on a uniquely
rewarding and sometimes overwhelming writer. On the road promoting
his books or in a domestic Setting, Vollmann comes across as
reflective and humane, humble in his craft despite deep dedication
to his uncompromising vision, and ever armed with a spirit of
mischief and capacity to shock and unSettle the reader.
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