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 novel.     Praise for William T. Vollmann  "Resembles War and Peace not merely in its scope, but in its perception of history as a determining force that individual lives merely illustrate . . . Aspires to the highest possible potential of literature." - Melvin Jules Bukiet,  Los Angeles Times "Profound . . . Vollmann asks us to put aside what we think we know of history and immerse ourselves in it once again."  - John Freeman,  The Boston Globe "You don’t go to Vollmann for structure or old-fashioned storytelling; you go to Vollmann for the sentences, the mood, the experience. You go to Vollmann for the same reason certain people chase storms."  - Tom Bissell,  The New Republic “William T. Vollmann has given us fiction for the electronic age.”   - Gail Pool,  The New York Times William T. Vollmann is the author of twelve novels, including Europe Central , which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas , which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and ten 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. He lives in Sacramento, California.