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Butterfly Stories: A Novel

William T. Vollmann - Fiction - 1993 - 292 pages
Butterfly Stories follows a dizzying cradle-to-grave hunt for love that takes the narrator from the comfortable confines of suburban America to the killing fields of Cambodia ...
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Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Fiction - 2006 - 468 pages
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and ...
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Dirty Snow

Georges Simenon - Criminals - 2003 - 276 pages
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Argall: Volume Three of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

William T. Vollmann - Fiction - 2002 - 772 pages
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a hugely original fictional history of Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Jamestown colony in Virginia In Argall ...
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Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

William T. Vollmann - Science - 2006 - 308 pages
The man and the idea that created modern science, as seen by one of today's most celebrated writers.
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Poor People

William T. Vollmann - Social Science - 2010 - 468 pages
That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of ...
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Riding Toward Everywhere

William T. Vollmann - Travel - 2009 - 292 pages
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's ...
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Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh ...

William T. Vollmann - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 534 pages
“Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.” —Booklist William T. Vollmann ...
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