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Poor People.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 30-APR-07
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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

Following Vollmann's three-thousand-page treatise on violence, this relatively slender book is framed as a collection of "snapshots" showing how "certain poor people experienced their poverty at random moments." Vollmann disavows the kind of sustained analysis attempted in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," which he considers a failure, "because...

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