Table for Fortune: Box Set

William T. Vollmann is the author of twelve novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and ten works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications. He lives in Sacramento, California.

Praise for William T. Vollmann “A Table for Fortune exemplifies a genre of books I call monsterpieces, culture-mastering excessive novels that deform conventional narratives into ingenious and instructive monstrosities. . . . Some of the book's features resemble those of other hefty and heroically chancy American novels—the documentary experiments of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, the fragmentary logorrhea of William Gaddis' JR, the paranoia in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the hyper-patriotic voice of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning, the descriptions of tedious government bureaucracy in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King. . . . [A] heroic, fascinating and important work.”—Tom LeClair, The New York Times“A work like this is not only a book about powerful conspirators. It is also a book that can help keep people afloat as they navigate the tumultuous seas of the post-truth era, dodge the whirlpools of digital banality and resist the leviathans of techno-capitalism. . . [A Table for Fortune] crowns a career that reminds readers that the world’s troubles must be apprehended as much more complex than a few data points and alarmist sound bites suggest.”—Christopher Coffman, The Conversation“Hugely ambitious and with rewards for those with ample time to spare.”—Kirkus "Resembles War and Peace not merely in its scope, but in its perception of history as a determining force that individual lives merely illustrate . . . Aspires to the highest possible potential of literature."- Melvin Jules Bukiet, Los Angeles Times"Profound . . . Vollmann asks us to put aside what we think we know of history and immerse ourselves in it once again."- John Freeman, The Boston Globe"You don’t go to Vollmann for structure or old-fashioned storytelling; you go to Vollmann for the sentences, the mood, the experience. You go to Vollmann for the same reason certain people chase storms."- Tom Bissell, The New Republic“Full of terror and pity, Vollmann's narratives go back beyond tragedy to the historical mastery of epic.” - National Book Award judges