You Bright and Risen Angels, William T. Vollmann.

Signed First UK Edition.

“This book was written by a traitor to his class. It is dedicated to bigots everywhere. Ladies and gentlemen of the black shirts, I call upon you to unite, to strike with claws and kitchen pokers, to burn the grub-worms of equality’s brood with sulfur and oil, to huddle together whispering about the silverfish in your basements, to make decrees in your great solemn rotten assemblies concerning what is proper, for you have nothing to lose but your last feeble principles.”
~William T. Vollmann, You Bright and Risen Angels.

William T. Vollmann is a criminally underrated writer. If I had to compare him to anyone, I'd say he's the love child of Pynchon's hyper-kinetic intellectual and verbose fiction writing and Hunter S. Thompson's rather reckless gonzo journalism. He is a novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. In 2004 McSweeneys published Rising Up and Rising Down, a 3,300 page, heavily illustrated, seven-volume treatise on violence which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A heavily abridged version was later published that year which, despite Vollmann's own admission that he abridged it "for the money", I highly recommend.

You Bright and Risen Angels is Vollmann's first book, published in 1987, and is "a vast freewheeling, profoundly hilarious epic, a surreal cornucopia of beastliness and pain." It's an allegorical tale, telling of the battle for power between the inventors and developers of electricity and the insect world. The young Vollmann was working as a computer programmer at the time and wrote the novel after hours on office computers, subsisting on candy bars from vending machines and hiding from the janitorial staff. This is the first UK Edition, which preceded the US Edition, signed by Vollmann:

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