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Original Title:	Whores for Gloria
ISBN:	0140231579 (ISBN13: 9780140231571)
Edition Language:	English

Whores for Gloria Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Title	:	Whores for Gloria
Author	:	William T. Vollmann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Novels. American. Americana

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From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crows comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, Jimmy, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore, a woman who may or may not exist save in Jimmy's rambling dreams. Gloria's image seems distilled from memory and fantasy and the fragments of whatever Jimmy can buy from the other whores: their sex, their stories--all the unavailing dreams of love and salvation among the drinkers and addicts who haunt San Francisco's Tenderloin District.

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Ratings: 3.69 From 1017 Users | 127 Reviews

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Brutal and hallucinatory. You don't really know who is alive or dead or made up or just a part of stores told by prostitutes. It is possible that it doesn't matter if anyone is alive or dead or imagined, which is a hard possible truth to swallow. There is a sentence in there where it says we are nothing but stories and hair, and maybe he is on to something. The terror the book mines is that that lies below the surface of the terror we can romanticize: the hooker with the heart of gold, the

Not sure who recommended this one, but found it pretty inaccessible. Comparisons with Pynchon and Burroughs seem valid given this fact, but for all the wrong reasons...

I'd only read The Rainbow Stories by Vollmann (dug it), but have decided to start reading more of his stuff. I figured this thematic trilogy for a decent starting point.Whores for Gloria unfortunately is a bit of a failure, but at least an interesting one. Was kind of neat to read this right after Endless Love, because it's about as good, but for totally different reasons. Endless Love is, even in its risk-taking, largely mediocre and tedious, occasionally pretty good, rarely ever terrible.

I first read William T. Vollmann fairly early in the 21st century, around 2002 or 2003. I was about to finish or had just more or less finished grad school. After grad school I moved back across the country to my city of origin in order to cohabit with a woman with whom I had become romantically involved. She and I lived a circumscribed existence. We didnt have much in the way of friends, more or less abstaining from the society of our fellows. Literature, music, and cinema were that over which

https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/161848...I havent told the truth for so long now that Ive given up lying.William T. Vollmanns name has come up often and been noticed on lists of books deserving to be remarked upon. For some reason I have resisted reading him, but my being recently compared to him by another writer I am intimate with, I decided to examine a bit of the fuss behind the legend of Vollmann. Whores for Gloria signals my starting point. And what a point it is.Virgin Mary candy full of

I hate when people criticize a book for not going the direction they would have taken it BUT I feel this book would have been a lot more enjoyable if it had gone full blown magical realism, but it didn't. I appreciate the transgressive approach of this book and the odd, slightly off-putting, rambling prose was interesting, and I read it sort of fast, but it was basically a 130 page profile. And it was all ugliness, really. An interesting book but not one I'd necessarily recommend and won't be

I did it! I really did it! I finally managed to not helicopter a book by Vollmann across the room after the first thirty-odd pages or so. Despite the rabid adulation on the GR from his (admittedly) small number of unwavering acolytes, something about his prose style has never clicked with me. Again and again I found his run-on sentences too unwieldy and stilted as they clunked along the page, regurgitating a Mulligan stew of overly self-serious authorial asides and (admittedly) erudite