num_pages: 160
description: A “beautifully written and deeply affecting” novel ( USA Today ) about a Vietnam veteran – from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralFrom the acclaimed author of Europe Central  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 sex worker, 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 sex their sex, their stories—all the unavailing dreams of love and salvation among the drinkers and addicts who haunt San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
language: English
title: Whores for Gloria
titlecomplete: Whores for Gloria
genres: 20th Century, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, War, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1220
places: San Francisco, California
publisher: Penguin Books