You Bright and Risen Angels
William T. Vollmann. Penguin Books, $25 (656pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011087-6
``The story is an epic brew of technology, magic, politics, history and entomology, by turns fiercely satiric and good-naturedly humorous,'' maintained PW of this ``ferociously talented first novel,'' about (among other things) a pitiless war between insects and the inventors of electricity. Illustrated by the author. (Dec . )
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Reviewed on: 12/01/1988
Genre: Fiction