A Table for Fortune: Box Set

[A] heroic, fascinating and important work.Tom LeClair, The New York Times

A Table for Fortune has gone to press and will publish October 6, 2026.

In A Table for Fortune, National Book Awardwinner William T. Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life in this four-part, 3,000+ page novel that is at once a family drama, bildungsroman, and national epic.

Volumes 1 and 2 gather from the half-forgotten annals of the near-pastStasi documents, Iraqi newspaper articles, presidential radio addressesto form a vivid and mesmeric saga centered on Elliott Stevens, or DAVE, a CIA analyst whose glee at winning the Cold War is matched only by the dread that culminates in the nightmares of September eleventh and the resulting War on Terror. The hero of Volumes 3 and 4 is Matthew Stevens, Elliott’s son, whose efforts to escape his pare