Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader

"William T. Vollmann can be ranked among the eight or ten greatest novelists America has produced." --The Washington Post Book World William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as "You Bright and Risen Angels," "The Royal Family," and "Rising Up and Rising Down"--his latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour-de-force--have launched him into the literary stratosphere. He stands today as one of America's leading contenders for a future Nobel Prize in literature. Here is his long-awaited "best-of" collection, intended both as an introduction for the curious reader, and as a necessary addition to the existing fan's collection. With excerpts from all of Vollmann's novels (including several not yet published), journalistic pieces, essays, correspondence, and poetry, "Expelled from Eden" creates a unique, kaleidoscopic portrait of one of America's most notorious, protean, devastating, and necessary writers.