William T. Vollmann
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Journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was born in 1959 and educated at Cornell University. He worked as a comptuer programmer before becoming a journalist and covering Bosnia, Sarajevo and Afghanistan. He has written extensively since 1987, when his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, mehr anzeigen was published. The Atlas (1996) won the PEN Center USA West Award for the best novel by a writer living west of the Mississippi. His newest work of Non-Fiction is entitled, Imperial. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} (2004) 658 Exemplare
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {7 Volumes} (2003) 108 Exemplare
Historias del arcoíris (2ªED) 3 Exemplare
Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two: Drawings, Prints & Paintings: 1980-2020 (2022) 3 Exemplare
The Cloud Shirt (extract) 2 Exemplare
The Tale of the Dying Lungs 1 Exemplar
Red Hands [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
Nicole 1 Exemplar
The Convict Bird: A Children's Poem 1 Exemplar
Machines of Loving Grace {article} 1 Exemplar
De Sade's Last Stand 1 Exemplar
Expectations (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 Exemplar
Yellow Rose (in Love is Strange, ROSE) 1 Exemplar
Vollmann William 1 Exemplar
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Ein Grabmal für Boris Dawidowitsch. Sieben Kapitel ein und derselben Geschichte (1978) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben — 708 Exemplare
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Mitwirkender — 248 Exemplare
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Mitwirkender — 201 Exemplare
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Black Clock 3 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Vollmann, William Tanner
- Geburtstag
- 1959-07-28
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Sacramento, California, USA
Bloomington, Indiana, USA - Ausbildung
- University of California, Berkeley (Graduate Studies)
Cornell University (BA summa cum laude|1982 - Comparative Literature)
Deep Springs College - Berufe
- journalist
novelist - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2007)
Whiting Writers' Award (1988)
National Book Award for Fiction (2005)
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The moral calculus was a slog, and the case studies a bit less so, the latter due to what felt like going on too long. (But then again, doesn't perpetual violence always feel like—and isn't it really—too long?) Most of the rest of the book, though, was fascinating in a way I can't fully describe, which in addition to actually being a good thing for reading purposes, may also get at why we can't just make neat categories or judgments about violence and call it a day.
20th century history filtered through high school jocks and nerds (and sentient insects). Too long and too bitter.
The last 200 pages or so wore me out. There wasn't any unifying theme, and after reading a lot of Proustian prose about Shostakovich, he again pops up for another 100 pages of self-pity in the chapter "Opus 110". I found all the music-related similes at best awkward and at worst total nonsense. This novel is the epitome of overwritten and adds zero understanding of Germany and Russia during WWII, but provides a backdrop for imagined affairs and angst for the two countrie's artists, composers, and filmmakers. I'm done with Vollmann if this is an example of his best work (he got the National Book Award for this one).… (mehr)
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I think I'd probably be happier reading the imaginary book: "Best American Adventure Travel Writing".
The thing I like best about collections like this is being able to come to them when you need something to read but can't commit to a serious novel. This has been good bedtime reading for me this month.… (mehr)