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Whores for Gloria

By William T. Vollmann

By William T. Vollmann

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Feb 01, 1994 | ISBN 9780140231571

Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
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Feb 01, 1994 | ISBN 9780140231571

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About Whores for Gloria

A “beautifully written and deeply affecting” novel (USA Today) about a Vietnam veteran – from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

From the acclaimed author of Europe Central comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, Jimmy, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic sex worker, a woman who may or may not exist save in Jimmy’s rambling dreams. Gloria’s image seems distilled from memory and fantasy and the fragments of whatever Jimmy can buy from the other sex workers: their sex, their stories—all the unavailing dreams of love and salvation among the drinkers and addicts who haunt San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.

Also by William T. Vollmann

The Lucky Star
No Good Alternative
No Immediate Danger
The Dying Grass
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About William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann has won the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Penguin Books
Feb 01, 1994 | 160 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140231571
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