You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction) [Paperback] Vollmann, William T.

Vollmann, William T.

ISBN 10: 0140110879 / ISBN 13: 9780140110876

Published by Penguin Books, 1988

About this Item

1987 Atheneum hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - minor stain to page edge - otherwise dust jacket like new (now in mylar cover) cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction) [Paperback] Vollmann, William T.
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140110879
• ISBN 13: 9780140110876
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 15 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

The debut work of fiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

You Bright and Risen Angels is the work of an extraordinary imagination. In this free-wheeling novel of epic proportions, William T. Vollmann has crafted a biting, hilarious satire of history, technology, politics, and misguided love. In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the streets of San Francisco, a fearsome battle rages. The insects are vying for world domination; the inventors of electricity stand in evil opposition. Bug , a young man, rebels against his own kind and joins forces with the insects. Wayne, a thug, allies himself with the malevolent forces of electricity and vows to assassinate the preying mantis who tends bar in Oregon.

About the Author

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award.  He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.