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William T. Vollmann

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann returns to his original fictional territory – the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco – with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society. The Lucky Star (Viking) aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice, and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are.

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