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Impeccably researched...Vollmann apologizes to the future that we've ruined, charting how our choices of energy sources made the planet scarcely inhabitable. -- Kirkus Reviews One of the few contemporary American writers who's managed to say some new things in a truly original way. -- Boston Globe, praise for the author

"""Impeccably researched...Vollmann apologizes to the future that we've ruined, charting how our choices of energy sources made the planet scarcely inhabitable."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""One of the few contemporary American writers who's managed to say some new things in a truly original way."" -- ""Boston Globe, praise for the author"""

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William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six 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. Sean Runnette, a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has produced several Audie Award-winning audiobooks and has also narrated works by John Steinbeck and Richard P. Feynman. Of his performance of The Courage to be Free, AudioFile Magazine wrote Runnette's tender approach to every sentence and paragraph helps the author's wisdom glow. Along with the understated power of the author's writing, Runnette's performance makes this one of the most arresting and thought-provoking audiobooks available today. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured internationally with Mabou Mines, an avant-garde theater company. Sean's television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Copland, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Third Watch.

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