ISBN: 9781648211881 - a table for fortune: box set (10 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. [A] heroic, fascinating and important work.Tom LeClair, The New York TimesA Table for Fortune has gone to press and will publish in October 2026.In A Table for Fortune, National Book Awardwinner William T. Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life in this four-part, 3,000+ page novel that is at once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic. Volumes 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-pastStasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addressesto form a vivid and mesmeric saga centered on Elliott Stevens, or DAVE, a CIA analyst whose glee at winning the Cold War is matched only by the dread that culminates in the nightmares of September eleventh and the resulting War on Terror. The hero of Volumes 3 and 4 is Matthew Stevens, Elliott's son, whose efforts to escape his parents and divine the fate of his life result in homelessness, addiction, and perhaps even happiness. Spanning from 1968 to 2019, these volumes comb togetherwith Vollmann's generous wit and Olympian prosea staggeringly well-researched, definitive history of American post-war foreign policy with a deft, moving chronicle of a family's descent into resentment and gloom. Elliott and Matthew Stevens are passengers within a divine bullet, which, like Gogol's troika before it, overtakes all flying to its nation's end. This boxed set, with all four volumes in hardcover, allows the book to be read as intended: as one towering novel, the magnum opus of one of the giants of literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

hardcover. Condición: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: New. First Edition. Brand new, ships in publisher's box. Due to size and weight, additional charges may apply to orders outside of US.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. [A] heroic, fascinating and important work.Tom LeClair, The New York TimesA Table for Fortune has gone to press and will publish in October 2026.In A Table for Fortune, National Book Awardwinner William T. Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life in this four-part, 3,000+ page novel that is at once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic. Volumes 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-pastStasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addressesto form a vivid and mesmeric saga centered on Elliott Stevens, or DAVE, a CIA analyst whose glee at winning the Cold War is matched only by the dread that culminates in the nightmares of September eleventh and the resulting War on Terror. The hero of Volumes 3 and 4 is Matthew Stevens, Elliott's son, whose efforts to escape his parents and divine the fate of his life result in homelessness, addiction, and perhaps even happiness. Spanning from 1968 to 2019, these volumes comb togetherwith Vollmann's generous wit and Olympian prosea staggeringly well-researched, definitive history of American post-war foreign policy with a deft, moving chronicle of a family's descent into resentment and gloom. Elliott and Matthew Stevens are passengers within a divine bullet, which, like Gogol's troika before it, overtakes all flying to its nation's end. This boxed set, with all four volumes in hardcover, allows the book to be read as intended: as one towering novel, the magnum opus of one of the giants of literature. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condición: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . .

Condición: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. [A] heroic, fascinating and important work.Tom LeClair, The New York TimesA Table for Fortune has gone to press and will publish in October 2026.In A Table for Fortune, National Book Awardwinner William T. Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life in this four-part, 3,000+ page novel that is at once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic. Volumes 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-pastStasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addressesto form a vivid and mesmeric saga centered on Elliott Stevens, or DAVE, a CIA analyst whose glee at winning the Cold War is matched only by the dread that culminates in the nightmares of September eleventh and the resulting War on Terror. The hero of Volumes 3 and 4 is Matthew Stevens, Elliott's son, whose efforts to escape his parents and divine the fate of his life result in homelessness, addiction, and perhaps even happiness. Spanning from 1968 to 2019, these volumes comb togetherwith Vollmann's generous wit and Olympian prosea staggeringly well-researched, definitive history of American post-war foreign policy with a deft, moving chronicle of a family's descent into resentment and gloom. Elliott and Matthew Stevens are passengers within a divine bullet, which, like Gogol's troika before it, overtakes all flying to its nation's end. This boxed set, with all four volumes in hardcover, allows the book to be read as intended: as one towering novel, the magnum opus of one of the giants of literature. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condición: New.