You Bright and Risen AngelsThe debut work of fiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central You Bright and Risen Angels is the work of an extraordinary imagination. In this free-wheeling novel of epic proportions, William T. Vollmann has crafted a biting, hilarious satire of history, technology, politics, and misguided love. In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the streets of San Francisco, a fearsome battle rages. The insects are vying for world domination; the inventors of electricity stand in evil opposition. Bug , a young man, rebels against his own kind and joins forces with the insects. Wayne, a thug, allies himself with the malevolent forces of electricity and vows to assassinate the preying mantis who tends bar in Oregon. |
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... swim . They must have light , it appeared , and he must have motion . He knew that if he were to turn out his flashlight then the polliwogs and golliwogs would happily go to sleep again , but now that he had illuminated them they must swim ...
... swim . They must have light , it appeared , and he must have motion . He knew that if he were to turn out his flashlight then the polliwogs and golliwogs would happily go to sleep again , but now that he had illuminated them they must swim ...
Page 223
... swim well . He was afraid of the water . But he wanted very much to take a rowboat or a canoe out by himself some evening and stroke , stroke out into the lake until he couldn't see either shore , and go amidst the islands as if it were ...
... swim well . He was afraid of the water . But he wanted very much to take a rowboat or a canoe out by himself some evening and stroke , stroke out into the lake until he couldn't see either shore , and go amidst the islands as if it were ...
Page 343
... swimming pool anymore , because he had his basins of chemicals in which his hands could swim ; and anyhow the thing about swimming is that once you enter the water the universe assigns you freedom to go in three dimensions instead of ...
... swimming pool anymore , because he had his basins of chemicals in which his hands could swim ; and anyhow the thing about swimming is that once you enter the water the universe assigns you freedom to go in three dimensions instead of ...
Contents
The Little MatchSeller | 9 |
Synthetic Cognitions a PrioriIn the JungleStation | 52 |
and Misconceptions 18781911The Switch is Thrown | 133 |
Copyright | |
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