Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader

by William T. Vollmann, Larry McCaffery, Michael Hemmingson (Editor)

Overview

William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as You Bright and Risen Angels, The Royal Family, and Rising Up and Rising Down—his latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour de force—have launched him into the literary stratosphere and added his name to the list of potential future Nobelists.


Here is his long-awaited "best-of" collection, intended both as an introduction for the curious reader, and as a necessary addition to the existing fan's collection. With excerpts from all of Vollmann's novels (including several not yet published), journalistic pieces, essays, correspondence, and poetry, Expelled from Eden creates a unique, kaleidoscopic portrait of one of America's most notorious, protean, devastating, and necessary writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560254416
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	12/21/2004
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	1,117,251
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central.

Larry McCaffery has published or edited numerous books, essays, and journals about postmodernism.

Michael Hemmingson is an accomplished novelist in his own right, who has also edited several anthologies of contemporary fiction.

Hometown:

Sacramento, California

Date of Birth:

July 28, 1959

Place of Birth:

Santa Monica, California

Education:

Attended Deep Springs College and Cornell University

Editorial Reviews

"William T. Vollmann looks to be the most prodigiously talented and historically important novelist under 35...he has published books which tower over his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacius innovation, and sardonic wit."

From the Publisher

Vollmann's willingness to go against the preferred social realism of our day, enabled by his publishers' willingness to allow him to unfold his Wagnerian epics at full length, makes him a hero of our time.
— The Washington Post

Steven Moore