Description

Praised by Newsday as "the most unusual--and probably the most inventive and thrilling --author at the office today," William T. Vollmann has additionally proven herself being an intrepid correspondent prepared to visit the greatest places in the world. Here he brings on these formidable skills to produce a net of fifty three connected stories, what he calls?a piecemeal atlas of the planet I believe in.? Occur locations from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, Mogadishu to Ny, and provocatively mixing autobiography with creation, dream with reportage, these tales analyze poverty, abuse, and decline even while they enjoy the wonder of scenery, the excitement of the alien, the much valuable ache of love.