Imperial (book)

2009 non-fiction book by William T. Vollmann

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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1. ^ NY Magazine review

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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)

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