William T Vollmann: 16 books
No Immediate Danger
Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic
“The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler
A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author...
No Good Alternative
Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic
“The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler
An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production—the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central
In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered.
Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its...
Argall
Volume Three of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2002
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a hugely original fictional history of Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Jamestown colony in Virginia
In Argall, the third novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T. Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language...
An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan,...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
With his first three works of fiction—the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories—William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and T.C. Boyle.
His...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the hearts and minds of the world's poorest...
The Dying Grass
A Novel of the Nez Perce War
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
**"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."--The Washington Post
The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians**
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central
Hailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today," William...
The Royal Family
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco’s Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central
In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed...
Kissing the Mask
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.”
—Booklist
William T. Vollmann, the National Book Award–winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
**A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award. **
In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on...
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality...
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