In the latest novel in his Seven Dreams series, Vollmann alternates between gritty realism and Extravagant Elizabethan language to dig beneath the legend surrounding Pocahontas, John Smith and the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia - as well as the betrayals, disappointments and atrocities behind it. Hailed as the most important literary project of the '90s' (Washington Post), this hugely original fictional history of the clash between Native Americans and Europeans in the New World continues to do nothing less than reinvent the American novel.'