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Highlights
- From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell.
- About the Author: William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award.
- 1200 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
From the author of "Europe Central" comes a journalistic tour de force set along the Mexican-American border.Book Synopsis
From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.Review Quotes
"Obsessive, strangely engrossing . . . a combination history book, documentary, autobiography, and topographical survey." --Time "Vollmann has penetrated the soul of a place that is like few others on earth, but whose hardships and triumphs tell you something universal about the durability and ambition of the human spirit." --The Economist "No one who reads this singular, significant book--half Michael Harrington's The Other America, half James Joyce's Finnegans Wake--will contemplate NAFTA, illegal immigration, or a trip to a 'Southside' brothel without thinking of [Vollmann]." --The Washington Post "Tracks the battles, real and metaphorical, that define Imperial County--battles over immigration and water, identity and the reach and limitations of political power. The book is perhaps the clearest expression of Vollmann's career-long commitment to immersing himself in complexities." --Los Angeles Times
About the Author
William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.Dimensions (Overall): 8.93 Inches (H) x 5.93 Inches (W) x 1.95 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.33 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 1200
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Penguin Books
Theme: State & Local, Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Format: Paperback
Author: William T Vollmann
Language: English
Street Date: October 26, 2010
TCIN: 1004353025
UPC: 9780143118404
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-0543
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 2.33 pounds
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