The Lucky Star. by. William T. Vollmann. · Rating details · 88 ratings · 29 reviews. The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society. In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann /5. · Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they www.doorway.ru The Lucky Star. William T. Vollmann. Viking, $35 () ISBN Vollmann’s sprawling and provocatively playful novel revisits the sordid setting of his early collection The.
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eMusic. www.doorway.ru Add to Cart. About The Lucky Star. The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society. In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are. William T. Vollmann, author of “The Lucky Star.”. (William T. Vollmann) Like many Vollmann novels, “The Lucky Star” is too long. But at the same time, it develops a powerful sense of human.
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