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Northern Exposure
Ulin, David L. | March 21, 1994 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Rifles," vol. 6, "Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes," by William T. Vollmann. The book is a symbolic history of North America in as many projected volumes, which has as its central concern the corruption of traditional life styles by European explorers. This book is a monumentally ambitious act of the imagination, combining fiction, myth and history to transform North America into a phantasmagorical dreamscape and the past into a stream of time that winds and rages and doubles back on itself, until meaning becomes as fluid as memory.

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RIFLES, The (Book); VOLLMANN, William T.; LIFESTYLES; EXPLORERS; IMAGINATION; NORTH America
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