ARGONAUT BOOKS

"His most welcoming work, possibly his best book . . . part novel and part stories, virtuoso historical remembrance and focused study of violence."-The New York Times Book Review "A jarring, haunting, absurdly ambitious symphony of a book . . . It has an emotional force capable of ripping almost any reader from his moorings. . . . Vollmann has done as much as anyone in recent memory to return moral seriousness to American fiction." -Steve Kettmann, San Francisco Chronicle "Resembles War and Peace not merely in its scope, but in its perception of history as a determining force that individual ...Read More