The Lucky Star Format:Hardcover the characters are wonderfully fresh

the characters are wonderfully fresh and honest

violence and gender--give rise to different lenses

and inherently beautiful in all the ways I'd never noticed

Fame is a fleeting thing

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The Lucky Star Format:Hardcover the characters are wonderfully freshThe National Book Award winning author 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 In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with