Imperial (book)

Imperial
	First edition cover
Author	William T. Vollmann
Language	English
Genre	Literary non-fiction
Publisher	Viking Books
Publication date	July 2009
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages	1344 (first edition)
ISBN	978-0-670-02061-4

Imperial is a 2009 study of California's Imperial Valley and Imperial County by American author William T. Vollmann. The product of over a decade's research, the 1,344-page published text is Vollmann's longest single-volume work. The book is divided into thirteen sections and explores the history, economics and geography of the region from 13,000 B.C. to the present day, with a particular focus on the border with Mexico.

Vollmann has called Imperial "my Moby-Dick".^[1] The book was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction.

References

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v t e William T. Vollmann
Collections	The Rainbow Stories (1989) 13 stories and 13 epitaphs (1991) The Atlas (1996) Last Stories and Other Stories (2014)
Seven Dreams series	The Ice-Shirt (1990) Fathers and Crows (1992) The Rifles (1994) Argall (2001) The Dying Grass (2015)
Prostitution Trilogy	Whores for Gloria (1991) Butterfly Stories (1993) The Royal Family (2000)
Standalone novels	You Bright and Risen Angels (1987) Europe Central (2005)
Non-fiction	An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World (1992) Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2003) Uncentering the Earth (2006) Poor People (2007) Riding Toward Everywhere (2008) Imperial (2009) Kissing the Mask (2010) The Book of Dolores (2013) No Immediate Danger: Volumes One and Two of Carbon Ideologies (2018)