Vollmann's new opus is typical—brilliant, but sometimes unreadable
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Author William T. Vollmann is an odd bird—“a loner, a bit of a recluse,” Charles McGrath writes in the
New York Times, “and a throwback: a wandering, try-anything writer-journalist in the tradition of Steinbeck or Jack London.” And his new book,
Imperial, about Southern California,...
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