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Butterfly Stories

A Novel

Butterfly Stories( )
Author: Vollmann, William T.
ISBN:978-0-8021-3400-4
Publication Date:Aug 1994
Publisher:Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Imprint:Grove Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.00
Book Description:

Butterfly Stories follows a dizzying cradle-to-grave hunt for love that takes the narrator from the comfortable confines of suburban America to the killing fields of Cambodia, where he falls in love with Vanna, a prostitute from Phnom Penh. Here, Vollmann's gritty style perfectly serves his examination of sex, violence, and corruption.

Book Details
Pages:281
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.71 Inches
Book Weight:0.594 Pounds
Author Biography
Vollmann, William T. (Author)
Journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was born in 1959 and educated at Cornell University.

He worked as a comptuer programmer before becoming a journalist and covering Bosnia, Sarajevo and Afghanistan.

He has written extensively since 1987, when his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, was published. The Atlas (1996) won the PEN Center USA West Award for the best novel by a writer living west of the Mississippi. His newest work of Non-Fiction is entitled, Imperial.

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