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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…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1997Penguin Books · 459 pages · 9780140254495
- Other · English · 1997AtlasTandem Library · 9781417703715
- Other · English · 1996Viking · 459 pages · 9780670865789
Short storiesFiction, short stories (single author)