The Atlas (Paperback)

Hailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today," William T. Vollmann has also established himself as an intrepid journalist willing to go to the hottest spots on the planet. Here he draws on these formidable talents to create a web of fifty-three interconnected tales, what he calls ?a piecemeal atlas of the world I think in.?

Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, Mogadishu to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, fantasy with reportage, these stories examine poverty, violence, and loss even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, the infinitely precious pain of love. The Atlas brings to life a fascinating array of human beings: an old Inuit walrus-hunter, urban aborigines in Sydney, a crack-addicted prostitute, and even Vollmann himself.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	June 1997
Authors:	William T Vollmann
Dimensions:	195 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-025449-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-025449-8
Barcode:	9780140254495

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