Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith

In "Argall," the newest novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T. Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language and gritty realism in an attempt to dig beneath the legend surrounding Pocahontas, John Smith, and the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia-as well as the betrayals, disappointments, and atrocities behind it. With the same panoramic vision, mythic sensibility, and stylistic daring that he brought to the previous novels in the Seven Dreams series-hailed upon its inception as "the most important literary project of the '90s" ("The Washington Post")-Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Native Americans and Europeans in the New World. In reconstructing America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle, Vollmann does nothing less than reinvent the American novel.

“"No book since John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor has so thoroughly transported readers back in time to our nation's origins. Prepare yourself to confront the political and moral compromises that got us where we are today. You won't find a better guide." --The Philadelphia Inquirer " Argall may bring us closer to the truth of America's first interracial romance than a thousand biographies written on the subject." --San Francisco Chronicle "Readers are likely to come away from this story...appreciating the mordant resonance with writers from Defoe to Conrad." --The Washington Post”

"Ascend[s] lyrically into the weather-beaten, blood-soaked early history of America" - THE INDEPENDENT "One of the masterpieces of the century." - The Chicago Tribune "Arguably the best instalment in this magnificent series." - Library Journal "Vollmann's commanding yet nimble, ironic yet deeply felt approach to the continent's complex history is the work of genius." - Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)"

William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three

William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of viol collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, "Rising Up and Rising Down". He is also the author of ence, "Rising Up and Rising Down". He is also the author of "Poor People", a worldwide examination of poverty through th"Poor People", a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; "Riding Toward Everywe eyes of the impoverished themselves; "Riding Toward Everywher

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