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In the review below, Richler offers praise for The Ice-Shirt.
The Ice-Shirt is the first of seven planned novels in William T. Vollmann's "symbolic history" of North America, a st...
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In the following review of The Ice-Shirt, Sacks praises Vollmann's imagination, use of myth, and prose style, but argues that the novel fails to reach narrative closure.
Imagine a performance o...
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In the following review, Dudar criticizes Vollmann for the lack of character development and narrative focus in The Ice-Shirt.
The review copies of William T. Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt arrived w...
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In the following review, Bock describes The Ice-Shirt as a "near-masterpiece."
Since 1987, William Vollmann has published 1,524 pages of fiction—more than most writers wring out i...
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Critical Review by Noah Richler
