Wednesday, November 30, 2016

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN--FICTION(?)

William T. Vollmann, The Afghanistan Picture Show; or, How I Saved the World (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992) ("As long as they grow in the wild, principles of life and meaningful action do quite well, but when they are plucked and brought into our dreary world of imperfect results, they begin to wilt. Happily, our noses are so accustomed to the stink of our enemies' putrefying ideas that when our own give over wilting and commence to decay we can use them nonetheless." Id. at 174.).

William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (Volume III of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (New York: Viking, 2001).

William T. Vollmann, The Atlas (New York: Viking, 1996).

William T. Vollmann, Butterfly Stories: A Novel (New York: Grove Press, 1993).

William T. Vollmann, Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Volume IV of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (New York: Viking, 2015) (See Jane Smiley, "The Bluecoats Are Coming," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 8/2/2105.).

William T. Vollmann, Fathers and Crows (Volume II of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (New York: Viking, 1992).

William T. Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt (Volume I of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (New York: Viking, 1990).

William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories (New York: Contemporary American Fiction/ Penguin Books, 1992).

William T. Vollmann, The Rifles (Volume VI of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (New York: Viking, 1994).

William T. Vollmann, Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991).

William T. Vollmann, You Bright and Risen Angels (New York: Penguin Books, 1988).