The Rainbow Stories (Contemporary American fiction) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Rainbow Stories Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 01 July 1992
- Format: Paperback 560 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780140171549 ISBN 10: 0140171541
- Sales rank: 261,738
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Full description for The Rainbow Stories
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live outside the law and and the clear light of the every day. Set in landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and the seamy underbelly of San Francisco, these daring and innovative tales are laced with Vollman's fertile imagination. The Rainbow Stories ushers us into a world that bears an awful yet hypnotic resemblance to that of our deepest nightmares, confirming Vollman's reputation as a dark visionary of contemporary fiction.
