The Rifles (novel)

The Rifles (novel)

infobox Book |
name = The Rifles
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = First edition cover
author = William T. Vollmann
illustrator =
cover_artist = Jacket design by Daniel Rembert
Cover photograph by Ulli Stelttzer
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Literary fiction
publisher = Viking Penguin
english_release_date =
release_date = February 24, 1994
media_type = Print (Paperback and Hardcover)
pages = 411 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-670-84856-5 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = Fathers and Crows
followed_by =

"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 . As of 2008, however, only four 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 an 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.

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,980397,00.html "Time" on "The Rifles"]


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