Last Stories and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143127567)

Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central

Watch for Vollmann's new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018

In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.

A Bohemian farmer's dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes.

Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann's stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

Author: William T. Vollmann
ISBN-10: 014312756X
ISBN-13: 9780143127567
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2015
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 32