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Open All Night

Name: Open All Night
Author: William T. Vollmann
ISBN: 9780879516482

by William T. Vollmann

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In Open All Night, Ken Miller's images and William T. Vollmann's unflinching reportage combine to present an unsettling and potently authentic document of our time. Imbued with a hyperreal poignancy, Miller's photographs reveal an America peopled by outsiders - skinheads, electroshock patients, addicts, prostitutes - the same people real and imagined, who inhabit the novels of William T. Vollmann. In tandem they present a stark yet human landscape in images and words of a world they both know intimately.

About the Author, William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

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Miller's black & white photos are captioned by quotes from works of fiction by William T. Vollmann. His subjects here are street people, prostitutes, skinheads, and others of America's underclass; and his gaze is unflinching. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)