The Rifles (novel)

1994 novel by American writer William T. Vollmann

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The Rifles

First edition cover

Author| William T. Vollmann
Cover artist| Jacket design by Daniel Rembert
Cover photograph by Ulli Stelttzer
Language| English
Series| Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
Genre| Literary fiction
Publisher| Viking Penguin

Publication date

| February 24, 1994
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Paperback and Hardcover)
Pages| 411 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN| 0-670-84856-5 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC| 28722824

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.54 20
LC Class| PS3572.O395 R54 1994
Preceded by| Fathers and Crows
Followed by| Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith

The Rifles is a 1994 novel by American writer William T. Vollmann. It is intended to be the sixth book in a planned seven-book cycle entitled Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. As of 2015 five of the seven have been published, The Rifles being the third to reach print.

Unlike the other books in this series so far, The Rifles is not wholly a historical novel, as it primarily takes place in the early 1990s, although the storyline depicting the trials and challenges of modern Inuit life is tied to the ill-fated exploration of the Arctic region by Sir John Franklin in the mid-19th century. The novel also discusses the 1955 forced migration of Inuit from Inukjuak, Quebec to Resolute, Nunavut.

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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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