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Rifles : Volume Six of Seven Dreams: a Book of North American Landscapes by William T. Vollmann (1995, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140176233

ISBN-139780140176230

eBay Product ID (ePID)57673

Product Key Features

Book TitleRifles : Volume Six of Seven Dreams: a Book of North American Landscapes

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicLiterary, Action & Adventure, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann

Book SeriesSeven Dreams Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"The form and sweep of the novel beg comparison to Moby-Dick . . . Nothing prepares you for the visceral chill of The Rifles ." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution "Striking . . . The Rifles recreates the heroic, harrowing dimensions, tragic, fatuous, and comic of the Franklin expedition. . . . It presents a vivid picture of life in the Arctic Circle today, both what seems eternal about it and what has changed." --The Boston Globe "An ambitious literary gambit. . . Sharp, often lyrical, and sometimes achingly beautiful." --The Washington Post

Series Volume Number6

Number of Volumes6 vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe story of John Franklin's doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of the mid-1800s, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. As Sir John Franklin embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage, he defies the warnings of the native people, and his journey ends in ice and death. But his spirit lingers in the Canadian north, where 150 years later, in 1990, Inuit elders dream of long-gone seal-hunting days and teenagers sniff gasoline. And when a white man seduces and leaves pregnant a young Indian woman, he becomes Franklin reincarnated, bound for the same fate. Vollmann's vivid characters and landscapes weave together the stories of the past and present to live out America's ongoing tragedy of greed, ignorance, and violence.