A Table for Fortune: Box Set

In A Table for Fortune, National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann depicts from the balcony-level of history the last half-century of American politics, war, and life. At once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic, this 3,000+ page, four-part novel may be our most ambitious writer's most ambitious work.

Parts 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-past –– Stasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addresses –– to form a vivid and mesmeric...