Man Who Loved Levittown

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

Del i serien Drue Heinz Literature Prize

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Beskrivning

This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. In Wetherell’s stories a suburban retiree’s assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1985-10-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt:245 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822962533

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W. D. Wetherell lives in Lyme Center, New Hampshire. He has published a novel, Souvenirs, and a book of essays, Vermont River. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many national magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He has twice won O. Henry Awards and has been awarded a fellowship in fiction by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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The title story . . . is a brilliantly realized inversion of that old, tired literary maxim: nothing ever happens in the suburbs except another affair, another martini and one more trot around the back nine . . . This is powerful stuff, a brilliant weaving of personal and political themes told in a colloquial voice that is both plaintive and funny and is ultimately haunting."