Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Add Volcano to bookshelf
Add to Bookshelf

Volcano

Best Seller
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Paperback $19.00
May 28, 1996 | ISBN 9780679767480

Buy from Other Retailers:

See All Formats (1) +
  • May 28, 1996 | ISBN 9780679767480

    Buy from Other Retailers:

  • Dec 16, 2020 | ISBN 9780593314562

    Buy from Other Retailers:

Product Details

Praise

My favorite kind of book is a poet’s first prose work. The poet comes upon a story so large — his life, nature, history — hat he must break out of careful verse into the freedom of prose. William Carlos Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, Louise Erdrich — and now Garrett Hongo."

— Maxine Hong Kingston

"When I finished this brave and sharp story I wanted to start again because of the honesty in the author’s voice and the many gifts — beautiful language, vivid and apt anecdotes, a novelist’s narrative instinct — that await the reader. Garrett Hongo elucidates here a Dragon; he reveals intelligence as love. And he magics time."

— Barry Lopez

"In this memoir, the village of Volcano is both a place on the map and a beacon in the far more elusive terrain of a man’s personal history. In charting that history, Garrett Hongo has produced a lyrical and penetrating work grafting intimate recollection with broad insight. He has aspired to Rousseau’s standard for himself — and for all memoirists — to recount comprehensively ‘what I have felt . . . and what my feelings have had me do.’"

Looking for More Great Reads?
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Get the latest updates about Garrett Hongo
And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
By clicking “SIGN UP”, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and understand that Penguin Random House collects certain categories of personal information for the purposes listed in that policy, discloses, sells, or shares certain personal information and retains personal information in accordance with the policy. You can opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information anytime.
Dismiss
Thanks!
Something awesome is on its way.
Back to Top