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Man Who Loved Levittown by W. D. Wetherell (1985, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822935201
ISBN-139780822935209
eBay Product ID (ePID)127059
Product Key Features
Book TitleMan Who Loved Levittown
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year1985
GenreFiction
AuthorW. D. Wetherell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-001172
ReviewsDiMaria's [a character from the title story] solitary battle with his new neighbors is almost epic in scope. He is one of the most forceful and realistic voices I have listened to in recent fiction; in speaking to no one in particular, he speaks to us all . . . Willy Loman with guts., "Original and highly entertaining. Wetherell's characters may be losers, but they're battlers, with a cranky dignity that sets them sharply apart from the spoiled whiners, quitters, and self-indulgent identity-seekers so frequently encountered in today's increasingly anemic fiction." -Washington Post, Wetherell's fertile imagination brings us an array of struggling characters to laugh about, shiver over and sometimes identify with. . . . The key to Wetherell's narrative success is his masterful use of conflict. It weaves in and out of each story like a fine thread--and catches the reader from start to finish., "Wetherell's fertile imagination brings us an array of struggling characters to laugh about, shiver over and sometimes identify with. . . . The key to Wetherell's narrative success is his masterful use of conflict. It weaves in and out of each story like a fine thread-and catches the reader from start to finish." -United Press International, Nearly always, Wetherell makes us care. That's because he refuses to condescend to his characters, because he achieves a voice appropriate to the story and because he has a sures sense of plot. . . . Wetherell writes cleanly and well as though E. B. White, counseling clarity and simplicity, has been peering over his shoulder., "Nearly always, Wetherell makes us care. That's because he refuses to condescend to his characters, because he achieves a voice appropriate to the story and because he has a sure sense of plot. . . . Wetherell writes cleanly and well as though E. B. White, counseling clarity and simplicity, has been peering over his shoulder." -Newsday, 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., "DiMaria's [a character from the title story] solitary battle with his new neighbors is almost epic in scope. He is one of the most forceful and realistic voices I have listened to in recent fiction; in speaking to no one in particular, he speaks to us all . . . Willy Loman with guts." -The Southern Review, "DiMaria's [a character from the title story] solitary battle with his new neighbors is almost epic in scope. He is one of the most forceful and realistic voices I have listened to in recent fiction; in speaking to no one in particular, he speaks to us all . . . Willy Loman with guts." --The Southern Review, "Nearly always, Wetherell makes us care. That's because he refuses to condescend to his characters, because he achieves a voice appropriate to the story and because he has a sure sense of plot. . . . Wetherell writes cleanly and well as though E. B. White, counseling clarity and simplicity, has been peering over his shoulder." --Newsday, "Original and highly entertaining. Wetherell's characters may be losers, but they're battlers, with a cranky dignity that sets them sharply apart from the spoiled whiners, quitters, and self-indulgent identity-seekers so frequently encountered in today's increasingly anemic fiction." --Washington Post, "Wetherell's fertile imagination brings us an array of struggling characters to laugh about, shiver over and sometimes identify with. . . . The key to Wetherell's narrative success is his masterful use of conflict. It weaves in and out of each story like a fine thread--and catches the reader from start to finish." --United Press International, "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." --New York Times Book Review, "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." -New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Wetherell is a passionate writer who . . . has a sharp, fresh eye and a complicated view of our dislocations, pains, and dreams." -- New York Times Book Review, Original and highly entertaining. Wetherell's characters may be losers, but they're battlers, with a cranky dignity that sets them sharply apart from the spoiled whiners, quitters, and self-indulgent identity-seekers so frequently encountered in today's increasingly anemic fiction.
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SynopsisWinner of the 1985 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.E9248M3 1985
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If you parents and grandparents baffle you, read The Man Who Loved Levittown. It captures the era they came from; thousands of men returned from World
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