author, 'Last Stories and Other Stories'
American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist
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William T. Vollmann
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FROM William T. Vollmann
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William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War is the fifth book in Vollman's seven-book series about loss and transformation of the North American continent, this novel dramatizes a power grab disguised as a race war between Native Americans and settlers.
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William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce. This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce.
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