In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco/5(35). Named one of the twenty best writers under forty by the New Yorker in , Vollmann received the best reviews of his career for The Royal Family, a searing fictional trip through a San Francisco. Since the publication of his first book in , William T. Vollmann has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unconventional literary figures on the scene today/5(89). Vollmann’s other works include the short-story collection Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs (), as well as the novels Whores for Gloria; or, Everything Was Beautiful Until the Girls Got Anxious () and The Royal Family, which was published earlier this www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
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Vollmann's royal family exists in various fringe netherworlds of San Francisco's Tenderloin District: an abandoned underground parking structure (home to the prostitute Queen who reigns over her Royal Family of prostitute apprentices and host of degenerate dealers, freaks, and johns), seedy bars and sleazier brothels fronted as run down motels reeking their rank semen stench out onto the filthy streets as far removed from the red carpets and gold awnings of a Ritz Carlton as Heaven is from Hell. Since the publication of his first book in , William T. Vollmann has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unconventional literary figures. In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco.
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