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Whores for Gloria - William T. Vollmann, Gloria Vollman
Whores for Gloria
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780679403425 (0679403426)
Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 138
Edition language: English
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M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
4.0 Whores for Gloria
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/161848367868/whores-for-gloria-by-william-t-vollmann…I haven’t told the truth for so long now that I’ve given up lying.William T. Vollmann’s name has come up often and been noticed on lists of books deserving to be remarked upon. For some reason I have resisted reading...
Leopard
Leopard rated it
My first Vollmann (in at the shallow end): Whores for Gloria is the harrowing, episodic story of an alcoholic, mentally disturbed veteran of the Vietnam War, Jimmy, who is trying to fabricate a love he calls Gloria from the clothes, hair, appearances and (the more pleasant, if necessarily quite di...
AC
AC rated it
The novelistic part (Gloria) was only so-so believable; the gritty skid row, very believable -- but it does get a bit repetitive after awhile -- not all unhappy 'families' being always different.
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