Imperial (book)

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

Imperial is a 2009 study of south-east California 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]

References

↑ NY Magazine review

William T. Vollmann

Standalone novels	You Bright and Risen Angels (1987) Europe Central (2005)

Non-fiction	Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2003) Imperial (2009)

Seven Dreams series	The Ice-Shirt (1990) Fathers and Crows (1992) Argall (2001) The Rifles (1994) The Dying Grass (2015)

Collections	The Rainbow Stories (1989) The Atlas (1996)

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