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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385513666

ISBN-139780385513661

eBay Product ID (ePID)30875978

Product Key Features

Book TitleWinslow in Love

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorKevin Canty

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-051754

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Raw. Rare. Honest. Beautifully written.Winslow in Loveis one of those novels that come along every now and then, making sense of the ruin and rush of our lives. The ongoing dream is to escape towards who we once were-and Winslow, a great broken-down drunken poet, manages to get there with a shattering grace. By avoiding all the clichés, by embracing sentiment without sentimentality, by taking the hard curve, Canty has written a significant American novel. Praise be." -Colum McCann, author ofDancer Praise for Kevin Canty "A great American road-trip novel-improbable, scary, and transcendent." -Joy Williams, author ofThe Quick and the Dead "Kevin Canty opens up the shame, the surprise, the beauty, and the undeniable comedy of human beings persisting in their lives and in love. Emily Dickinson, Route 66, andWinslow in Love. It doesn't get better than this." -Amy Bloom, author ofA Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You "Every now and then people sink so low, then meet someone so perfectly wrong, that the only lower place left to fall is in love. This blues-tune of a novel takes the 'April-September romance' cliché and twists it till it sings like Lucinda Williams. Canty's flabby yet indomitable old poet and self-starving poet-to-be defy expectation to the end, repulsing as they charm, derailing as they entertain, lying as they shine." -David James Duncan, author ofThe River Why, "Raw. Rare. Honest. Beautifully written. "Winslow in Love is one of those novels that come along every now and then, making sense of the ruin and rush of our lives. The ongoing dream is to escape towards who we once were--and Winslow, a great broken-down drunken poet, manages to get there with a shattering grace. By avoiding all the cliches, by embracing sentiment without sentimentality, by taking the hard curve, Canty has written a significant American novel. Praise be." --Colum McCann, author of "Dancer "Praise for Kevin Canty "A great American road-trip novel--improbable, scary, and transcendent." --Joy Williams, author of "The Quick and the Dead "Kevin Canty opens up the shame, the surprise, the beauty, and the undeniable comedy of human beings persisting in their lives and in love. Emily Dickinson, Route 66, and "Winslow in Love. It doesn't get better than this." --Amy Bloom, author of "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You "Every now and then people sink so low, then meet someone so perfectly wrong, that the only lower place left to fall is in love. This blues-tune of a novel takes the 'April-September romance' cliche and twists it till it sings like Lucinda Williams. Canty's flabby yet indomitable old poet and self-starving poet-to-be defy expectation to the end, repulsing as they charm, derailing as they entertain, lying as they shine." --David James Duncan, author of "The River Why

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SynopsisRichard Winslow is in a rut. His wife is leaving him, he drinks too much, his once-acclaimed poetry has sunken into obscurity, and he hasn't written anything worth reading for eighteen months. In truth, he hasn't even tried. The offer of a visiting professorship at a small college in Montana hardly seems like the best way to renew his artistic glory, but with his options and his bank account rapidly dwindling, Winslow makes the move. Once there, he rediscovers the forgotten pleasures of fly-fishing and meets a girl in worse shape than he is. Erica is a painfully thin student with a dragon tattooed on her neck. She is also sharp, confrontational, and fiercely intelligent. Their relationship, formed over paper cups of Johnnie Walker in Winslow's office, escalates when they impulsively take off on a road trip in Winslow's prized possession, a classic Lincoln Town Car. Traveling through Utah and Arizona, they forge a bond neither anticipated. Winslow, haunted by thoughts of death, begins to embrace the promise of love and life. From stunning descriptions of fly-fishing in cold Montana streams to pitch-perfect renditions of intimate conversations, Winslow in Love is a work of extraordinary beauty. Canty has long been recognized as a writer of finely nuanced prose who sees our time with breathtaking clarity. Of his last novel, Newsweek wrote: "Canty's forte is to examine human relationships with the precision of Sue Miller or Louise Erdrich within the context of a fast-moving narrative. Once he's got you in his thrall, you're as helpless as his lovers in the hands of fate.", When a burned-out poet takes a visiting professorship at a small college in Montana, he rediscovers the forgotten pleasures of fly-fishing and meets a girl in worse shape than he is. On an impulsive road trip, they forge a bond neither anticipated.

LC Classification NumberPS3553.A56W56 2004