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New York. 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374101051. 268 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by David Montiel. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Afghanistan. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a young American coming to terms with his political naivete. It is the story of a would-be giver who finds himself a perpetual Stranger, unable to comprehend the simplest things he hears and sees, and continually compelled to rely on others for help. In two narrative perspectives, Vollmann wryly confronts his own inadequacy in the face of limitless suffering and comes to the realization that one who went to aid and to understand could only hope, trust, and receive. In AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW Vollmann describes a Cold War…
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An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World Hardcover - 1992
by William T. Vollmann
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- Title An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World
- Author William T. Vollmann
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
- Date 1992
- ISBN 9780374101053 / 0374101051
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.25 x 1.07 in (23.60 x 15.88 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Afghanistan - History - Soviet occupation,, Afghanistan - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92007415
- Dewey Decimal Code 958.104
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. In 1982, Vollman traveled to Afghanistan to see firsthand the war being fought between Soviet occupation troops and Afghan guerrillas. It resulted in Vollman's first non-fiction work, a memoir of a young man coming to terms with his political naivete and confronting his own inadequacy in the face of unlimited suffering. Text shows some slight soiling on top edge, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, appears unread. Dustjacket appears near perfect, no tears, creasing or chipping, no remainder mark, not price-clipped. Scarce. Collectable.
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