The Ice Shirt (A Book of North American Landscape) [Idioma Inglés]: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes - Softcover

Vollmann, William T.

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ISBN 10: 0140131965 ISBN 13: 9780140131963

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1993

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A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central
 
Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018

The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.

As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award.  He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, andRising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published inThe New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140131965
• ISBN 13: 9780140131963
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432