William Vollmann is undoubtedly a genius, stylistically and otherwise. Depsite this, I find his prose tiresomely overwrought albeit occasionally rewarding. The tale of Pocahontas is stripped of its romanticism and related in a historical context in a mountain of purple prose.
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