Rising Up And Rising Down: Some Thoughts On Violence, Freedom And Urgent Means

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An abridged addition of the National Book Critic Circle Award finalist author's three-thousand-page, seven-volume work is a meditation on the possible justification of violence that is based on his war-zone observations and draws on the theories of numerous philosophers, theologians, military strategists, activists, and other thinkers. Reprint. 20,

William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He is also the author of Poor People, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin and Granta. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.