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The Royal Family

William T. Vollmann

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English
Penguin USA
01 August 2001
A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco's Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

InThe 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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Imprint:   Penguin USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 168mm,  Spine: 46mm
Weight:   929g
ISBN:   9780141002002
ISBN 10:   014100200X
Pages:   780
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.

Reviews for The Royal Family

"""A magnificent new novel from a writer whose books tower over the work of his contemporaries."" - The Washington Post; ""...a monster, a monster of talent, ambition and accomplishment."" - Los Angeles Times; ""Vollman has created a haunting, disturbing and magnificent novel..."" - San Diego Tribune; ""Nothing approaches the wild ambition on display in this book... This is exactly the kind of storytelling that the novel was invented for."" - San Francisco Chronicle"


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