You Bright and Risen Angels

You Bright and Risen Angels
First UK edition
Author	William Vollmann
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1987 (André Deutsch)
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	704 pp
ISBN	0-233-98022-9
OCLC	14241374

You Bright and Risen Angels is a 1987 novel by William T. Vollmann, detailing a fictional war between insects and the forces of modern civilization. Vollmann described the book, his first, as "an allegory in part", inspired by his experiences with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The novel is subtitled "A Cartoon." It is illustrated by the author.

Reception

You Bright and Risen Angels received critical praise and won the 1988 Whiting Writers' Award.^[1]

References

↑ Whiting Foundation

External links

Reviewed in The New York Times

William T. Vollmann

Standalone novels	You Bright and Risen Angels (1987) Europe Central (2005)

Non-fiction	Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2003) Imperial (2009)

Seven Dreams series	The Ice-Shirt (1990) Fathers and Crows (1992) Argall (2001) The Rifles (1994) The Dying Grass (2015)

Collections	The Rainbow Stories (1989) The Atlas (1996)

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