Expelled from Eden

A William T. Vollmann Reader

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Paperback | 1 December 2004 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"William T. Vollmann looks to be the most prodigiously talented and historically important novelist under 35...he has published books which tower over his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacius innovation, and sardonic wit."

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Preface
Introduction
Biographical statement (c. 1989)	p. 3
From "The land of counterpane"	p. 7
The butterfly boy	p. 11
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (1968)	p. 25
Some thoughts on neglected water taps	p. 29
List of "contemporary" books most admired by Vollmann (1990)	p. 35
From "The ghost of magnetism"	p. 39
Preface to Ken Miller's Open all night	p. 55
Ken Miller, selection of photos	p. 59
Honesty	p. 63
Three meditations on death	p. 69
Across the divide	p. 91
Regrets of a schoolteacher	p. 121
Zoya	p. 125
From "The grave of lost stories"	p. 131
Review of Reporting Vietnam	p. 137
Some thoughts on the value of writing during wartime	p. 143
From "Moral calculus"	p. 155
The agony of Parker	p. 161
The shame of it all	p. 167
Nicole	p. 187
Decisions, decisions	p. 193
The hermophrodite	p. 203
List of what porn is (and isn't)	p. 215
Sunflower	p. 219
From "The best way to smoke crack"	p. 225
Prayer against angels	p. 233
Antarctica	p. 237
The conquest of Kianazor	p. 239
The advantages of space (1978)	p. 243
A bizarre proposition (1979)	p. 245
Subzero's debt, 1991	p. 247
The water of life	p. 275
Writing	p. 305
Letter against cuts	p. 311
Whores for Gloria : a note to publishers	p. 317
Crabbed cautions of a bleeding-hearted un-deleter - and potential Nobel Prize winner	p. 319
"My life's work" (2002)	p. 325
American writing today : diagnosis of a disease	p. 329
Afterword to Danilo Kis's A tomb for Boris Davidovich	p. 333
Debts and debtors	p. 343
To the right honourable reader	p. 353
The stench of corpses	p. 367
Melville's magic mountain	p. 371
Steinbeck : most American of us all	p. 379
Postface	p. 383
A William T. Vollmann chronology	p. 387
Seven dreams : description of project	p. 447
CoTangent Press book objects	p. 459
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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