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Original Title:	The Royal Family
ISBN:	0670891673 (ISBN13: 9780670891672)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2000)

The Royal Family

William T. Vollmann

Hardcover | Pages: 774 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 654 Users | 86 Reviews

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A magnificent new novel from a writer whose books, "tower over the work of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation, and sardonic wit." (The Washington Post)

In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, Irene--who happens to be married to his brother John, an ambitious contract lawyer--commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something precious, Henry enters into a new life of nightmare beauty and degradation as he attempts to track down the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes.

Crafted out of language by turns eloquent, humorous, sensual, and obscene, and full of vividly rendered depictions of low-life bars, office politics, and hobo camps, here are Vollmann's familiar but ever surprising characters--the seekers, the vigilantes, the hypocrites, the street prostitutes. He has woven their stories into a vivid and unforgettable novel about the eerie paradoxes of possession and loss.

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Title	:	The Royal Family
Author	:	William T. Vollmann
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 774 pages
Published	:	August 7th 2000 by Viking Adult (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literature. American

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Man, Vollman's a challenge. Logorrheic, obsessive, exasperating, sometimes appalling, frequently depressing, Vollman soldiers through a world that's mostly brutal and ugly. He's a writer I don't ever recommend to anyone.Still, I'll admit I'm hooked. I wouldn't want to mainline him -- that'd be almost masochistic -- but he, better than most, recharges my fiction-reading batteries. When novels start to feel tepid and predictable, and boy do I hate when I see a book's ending coming a mile away,

This book was a huge disappointment to me. I read the early whore stories and Rainbow Stories and didn't much like them. They seemed purile and immature. Well -- ok.... Vollman, who's unquestionably a genius of sorts, was only about 30 or so when he wrote these.Turning to this - after the first 150 pages, I was prepared to see this as the 'great american novel of his generation' -- my thought was that Vollman at 32 *wanted* to be a writer; but that Vollman at 42 WAS a writer. The opening of this

WTV, in an interview: If freedom means anything, its about being repulsive as well as being able to do flower paintings. ...I believe that we have to focus on the Other. *************"She was a good person exactly as often as she could afford to be. What she thought of as standing up for herself might sometimes appear to others as bullying; for her it represented the exercise of a sacred moral principle. As for friendliness, she showed her goodwill whenever she could. By keeping track of all

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One could, on a superficial level, with a twitchy upper-lip, condescend the conventionally "unpleasant" subjects and characters of Mr. Vollmann's book. But then one would be wrong in doing so. The book is harrowing indeed. Vollmann takes you to places where you'd never in your over-privileged life ever think of going. He shows you how acts that to you may seem hideous and just disgusting, can be (are) acts that to someone on the darker side of the world just routine things of daily life, that to

The book is riveting. At times I wished I could leave its world. I was unable, a captive in the dense bleak circularity of emptiness seeking a fullness always out of reach. Yet, when I neared the end I grew sad of ever leaving these haunted beings trying to survive within the web of fear. The narrator is a private detective hired to find the Queen of Whores. He enters the Tenderloin riddled with prostitution and drug addicts. At first they seem to fit easily within these labels. Our detective is

Utterly devastating. A phenomenal work bursting with heart and insight for the people often forgotten. A terrific ode to the profession of prostitution and the broken hearted men who frequent their lives. Detailed with an eye for the absurd, a remarkable ear for all strands of slang and speech, and a plot that thrusts forward not by any convention other than emotional logic. The character of Dan Smooth is worth the price of this book alone and the many hours you will spend reading this,