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 ...
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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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Good in Very Good jacket. BI3-The author's signature is on the title page. A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top and bottom outside paper edges and front free endpaper. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus the front and back endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of short stories by a noted author of the form. The author is a winner of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, two NEA Fellowships, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize plus one of his novels was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. By the author of "The Wisest Man in America, " "Upland Streat, " "Hyannis Boat and Other Stories, " "The Man Who Loved Levittown, " and "Chekhov's Sister." 186p.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Hbk 186pp INSCRIBED by Wetherell on title page, appears unused and an excellent clean tight unmarked text in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new
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