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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, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.

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