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The man who loved Levittown / W.D. Wetherell.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.E9248 M3 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wetherell, W. D., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1985]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The man who loved Levittown
- If a woodchuck could chuck wood
- The lob
- The bass, the river, and Shiela Mant
- Nickel a throw
- Why I love America
- Narrative of the whale truck Essex
- Volpi's farewell
- North of peace
- Spitfire autumn.
- Notes:
- "The Drue Heinz literature prize 1985"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 0822935201
- OCLC:
- 11866793
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