William T. Vollmann (English xlation)
Otto
ottosell at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 12 07:57:07 CDT 2007
Thanks, I've ordererd literally hundreds of books from them in the
last thirty years and 0,99 Euro is an unbeatable price.
2007/4/12, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net>:
> Otto shared:
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> Vollman, William T.
> Afghanistan Picture Show - or, how I learned to save the world.
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> (Vollman is) the only one who fits the 7-league boots of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon
> (sez the Washington Post)
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> 1979: the Red Army marches into Afghanistan. The country lurches
> into into chaos. Partisans offer a nearly unbeatable resistance
> against the many-times-greater occupying force. As the pictures
> of burnt-out Soviet Panzer tanks reach America, a young American
> feels himself called to action: William T. Vollman sets out to
> save the world...Vollman is next to Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan
> Franzen and David Foster Wallace as one of the most important voices
> in current American literature and is said to be "the most
> unconventional, exciting and imaginative author of his generation"
> (Newsday)
>
> > http://www.zweitausendeins.de/
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> (note - zweitausendeins does mail order worldwide, great prices & products
> my experience with them is good)
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