num_pages: 318
description: The settings for the stories in Vollmann's collection range from Las Vegas to Bangkok, but his protagonists share traits in common. They are the desperate, the haunted, those who have reached the end of their ropes and are trying to make sense of a world that has failed them. The prostitutes and pimps, the addicts and the skinheads, who are the subjects of Vollmann's stories are all engaged in larger journeys of self-discovery. The hope that the next fix, the next night of sex, the next trip abroad will finally lead them to an always allusive internal peace.
language: English
title: Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
titlecomplete: Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Americana, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 357
publisher: Grove Press