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The rainbow stories / William T. Vollmann.
LIBRA Special PS3572.O395 R35 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vollmann, William T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Hippies--Fiction.
- Hippies.
- Manners and customs.
- California--San Francisco--Haight-Ashbury.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 541 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- Here are 13 daring and innovative tales dealing with "skinheads, x-ray patients, whores, lovers, fetishists, and other lost souls" who populate landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and contemporary San Francisco. Part fiction, part reportage, these narratives are laced with a bleak and bitter humor, and portray a dazzling array of characters.
- Contents:
- The visible spectrum
- The white knights
- Red hands
- Ladies and red lights
- Scintillant orange
- Yellow rose
- The yellow sugar: a tale of infamous righteousness and righteous villainy
- The green dress: a pornographic tale
- The blue wallet
- The blue yonder: a tale of cleanliness
- The indigo engineers
- Violet hair: a Heideggerian tragedy
- X-ray visions
- A note on the truth of the tales.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1989.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vollmann, William T. Rainbow stories.
- ISBN:
- 0140171541
- 9780140171549
- OCLC:
- 26557546
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