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Viking
July 2014
On Sale: July 10, 2014
692 pages
ISBN: 0670015970
EAN: 9780670015979
Kindle: B00G3L0ZV4
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Horror | Paranormal | Novella / Short Story
Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann,
author of the National Book Award winner Europe
Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine
years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a
collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death,
and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love
endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life
by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the
half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their
story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A
dying American romances the ghost of his high school
sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates
paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life
in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy
borderland between categories, and these eerie tales,
however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts
of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death.
Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical
world where love and lust make anything possible.
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