Last stories and other stories
By: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9780670015979
Subjects: Death; Ghost stories; Fiction
Description: "A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic ... far-flung their settings, all [focusing] on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-674).
Table of contents: title: Escape --; title: Listening to the shells --; title: The leader --; title: The treasure of Jovo Cirtovich --; title: The madonna's forehead --; title: Cat goddess --; title: The trench ghost --; title: The faithful wife --; title: Doroteja --; title: The judge's promise --; title: June eighteenth --; title: The cemetery of the world --; title: Two kings in Zinogava --; title: The white-armed lady --; title: Where your treasure is --; title: The memory stone --; title: The narrow passage --; title: The queen's grave --; title: Star of Norway --; title: The forgetful ghost --; title: The ghost of Rainy Mountain --; title: The camera ghost --; title: he cherry tree ghost --; title: Paper ghosts --; title: Widow's weeds --; title: The banquet of death --; title: The grave-house --; title: Defiance --; title: Too late --; title: When we were seventeen --; title: The answer --; title: Goodbye.