Whores for Gloria

William T. Vollmann

Pantheon Books, 1991 - Fiction - 138 pages

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.

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 12
• Section 3: 32

About the 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Whores for Gloria; Contemporary American fiction
• Author: William T. Vollmann
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 14, 2008
• ISBN: 0679403426, 9780679403425
• Length: 138 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General