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Also by William T. Vollmann:

The Lucky Star, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Dying Grass, August 2016
Trade Size
The Dying Grass, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Last Stories And Other Stories, July 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Europe Central, March 2005
Hardcover

LAST STORIES AND OTHER STORIES
By: William T. Vollmann

Viking
July 2014
On Sale: July 10, 2014
692 pages
ISBN: 0670015970
EAN: 9780670015979
Kindle: B00G3L0ZV4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Paranormal | Horror | 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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