Argall

For the past ten years William T. Vollmann has been working on one of the most ambitious novelistic projects of his generation: a seven-volume series of novels (Seven Dreams) that examines the repeated collisions between Native Americans & European colonizers & oppressors. Thus far, three novels have been published: The Ice-Shirt, Fathers & Crows, & The Rifles. In Argall, the third book in the series & the fourth to be published, Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language & gritty realism in an attempt to imagine what the lives of John Smith, Pocahontas, & their contemporaries might really have been like. Behind all of these characters stands the terrifying figure of Captain Samuel Argall, who will abduct Pocahontas, burn Indian towns, & bring black slavery to North America. This magnificent novel digs beneath the romantic legend of Pocahontas & the betrayals, disappointments, & atrocities behind it, offering a moving tale of dispossession that will appeal to fans of history & contemporary fiction alike.Vollmann, William T. is the author of 'Argall' with ISBN 9780670910304 and ISBN 0670910309.