You Bright and Risen Angels: A Cartoon - Hardcover

Vollmann, William T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068911852X ISBN 13: 9780689118524

Publisher: Atheneum, 1987

Synopsis

A vast, freewheeling, comic/surreal novel, in which the world is a battleground of hostile forces, a cosmic struggle rendered through the stories of assorted young American misfits.

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:

This comic and surreal novel about the beastliness and pain in the world focuses on the stories of assorted young American misfits, reactionaries and revolutionaries, young lovers, and raging old tyrants.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 068911852X
• ISBN 13: 9780689118524
• Binding: Hardcover