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A winner of the 1992 National Magazine Award for Fiction whose work has also been anthologized in the O. Henry Awards series, W. D. Wetherell crafts in these nine stories dead-true dialogue, compelling situations, and powerful metaphors. The result is lightning-bolt revelations about the human condition.
A young boy sees in his father's expression the reality of failed dreams and schemes: "He looked at me like a man who wants his son to buy his illusions and see through them and forgive him for having them in the first place." A teen-aged daughter blazes the way for her father to the necessary blending of hope and grief as the two mourn the loss of wife and mother. A blizzard engulfs a Montana home and the boy Willem senses a wider apocalypse. "The crust of the earth, the thing he took for granted most, was unwilling to support him, leaving him to flounder in a vague, sticky ether he couldn't trust." An aging, wheelchair-confined veteran faces an old nemesis and for a second time makes a life-or-death decision. A seasoned, if failed, promoter thinks he's found in a spelling bee prodigy a success "emerald colored and plenteous and much richer than anyone had ever told him." With searing honestly and wry humor, Wetherell, a master of many voices and many moods, one of America's great short story writers, digs deep to find "that great heart" that beats beneath the surface of human experience.
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W. D. Wetherell's other books include The Wisest Man in America (A Hardscrabble Book, 1995), Upland Stream (1991), Hyannis Boat and Other Stories (1989), and The Man Who Loved Levittown (1985). He has won two NEA Fellowships, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the National Magazine Award, and other honors. His novel Chekhov's Sister was selected as one of the Notable Books of 1990 by the New York Times.
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- PublisherUniv Pr of New England
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0874517214
- ISBN 13 9780874517217
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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