You Bright and Risen Angels

The debut work of fiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralYou 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.