The Atlas - Hardcover

Vollmann, William T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670865788 ISBN 13: 9780670865789

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

Arranged as a huge thematic palindrome, the pieces in the Atlas showcase Vollmann's ability to build unusual structures, sonnets composed of stories instead of words. Richly imagined and filled with his trademark flights of incandescent prose, it is his most accessible and the characteristic work to date.

About this title

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.

Synopsis:

An unconventional work offers fifty-three interconnected tales, fables, and portraits, ranging from the journalistic to the surreal, that bring to life a wide and strange array of characters in diverse settings, from Sarajevo to Jerusalem to New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670865788
• ISBN 13: 9780670865789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448