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The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann

The Royal Family

A Novel

A Novel

By William T. Vollmann

By William T. Vollmann

By William T. Vollmann

By William T. Vollmann

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Category: Erotica

Category: Erotica

Paperback $25.00

Aug 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780141002002

Ebook $10.99

Aug 01, 2001 | ISBN 9781101221563

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    About The Royal Family

    A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco’s Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

    In The 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.

    About The Royal Family

    A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco’s Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

    In The 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.

    Also by William T. Vollmann

    The Lucky Star
    No Good Alternative
    No Immediate Danger
    The Dying Grass
    Last Stories and Other Stories
    See all books by William T. Vollmann

    Also by William T. Vollmann

    The Lucky Star
    No Good Alternative
    No Immediate Danger
    The Dying Grass
    Last Stories and Other Stories
    See all books by William T. Vollmann

    About William T. Vollmann

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

    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: Erotica

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 01, 2001 | 800 Pages | 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780141002002

    Category: Erotica

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 01, 2001 | 800 Pages | ISBN 9781101221563

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