The Voice of the Butterfly Malachite and in the Meuse-Argonne and

and in the Meuse-Argonne and the effect these horrific battles had on the men

Sarah Dunant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of pleasure and the pleasures of sin

Things go from bad to worse in a hurry

and a future you can't face

and hilarious

The Voice of the Butterfly Malachite and in the Meuse-Argonne andA dazzling, darkly comic novel by the author of the The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo, The Voice of the Butterfly harnesses Nichols' vintage wit to fresh, hilariously scathing effect. Charley McFarland is an aging '60s radical, continuing proponent of losing battles, and resident of Suicide City, an amalgam of CFCs, SUVs, strip mines, and strip malls. When Suicide City's new highway bypass threatens the home of the exquisitely obscure