W. D. Wetgherell, Author, W. D. Wetherell, Author University Press of New England $21.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-87451-721-7
Wetherell's novels (The Wisest Man in America) and stories often combine a love of nature and of the conventional outdoor activities of boyhood with a darker and more mythic, almost magic-realist, sensibility. This collection of short fiction (his...
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Capturing the high spirits and excitement of television in the early 1950s, when no one was sure yet what might be successful, Wetherell builds a dramatic story on the format and best-remembered personalities of TV's original Today
show,...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author . Univ. of Michigan $24 (164p) ISBN 978-0-472-11431-3
Wetherell (Morning
; Chekhov's Sister
) traces the arc of a father's loss in this poignant, probing story about a Canadian judge who journeys from Vancouver to the European battlefield where his son died during the waning days of WWI....
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W. D. Wetherell, Author . Skyhorse $22.95 (281p) ISBN 978-1-60239-329-5
Wetherell’s son Matt is a starter for a Hanover, N.H., high school soccer team, which is seeking its third straight state championship, and he details the season’s ups and downs, while describing the culture surrounding competitive youth
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W. D. Wetherell, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8229-3520-9
This year's winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction is an engaging collection of tales featuring sympathetic characters caught up inbut not brought down bythe pathos, absurdities and disappointments of life. The title story,...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author Lyons Press $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55821-651-8
Without being too sentimental or woefully reactionary, Wetherell (Wherever That Great Heart May Be: Stories) laments in this book (portions of which have appeared in the New York Times, Vermont Life, Yankee and elsewhere) the disappearance of the...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-316-93169-4
Terror and humor are interwoven into nine stories that spread before us the crazy quilt of America's consumer culture. Like an oral historian, Wetherell ( The Man Who Loved Levittown ) brings to life key events of his time through the voices of his...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author Little Brown and Company $18.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-316-93162-5
The premise of this morality tale, set at the Chekhov Museum in 1941 Yalta, is a strong one--that great art can never be successfully manipulated for political purposes. Unfortunately Wetherell's ( The Man Who Loved Levittown ) homage to Russia's...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-316-93172-4
If writers on the subject are reliable witnesses, then fly-fishing is the most cerebral of sports; in these splendid essays, Wetherell ( Vermont Water ) supports that view convincingly. He explores tiny streams in New Hampshire, indulges in a wild...
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W. D. Wetherell, Author University Press of New England $30 (236p) ISBN 978-0-87451-700-2
Two characters share the title role of this understated, resonantly thoughtful novel: Ferris, a New Hampshire lumberjack who has successfully predicted the winners of 11 straight presidential primaries, and Max, the newspaper columnist who...
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W.D. Wetherell. Arcade, $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-61145-744-5
In Wetherell’s taut latest, Vera Savino, a middle school teacher, retreats to her sister’s summer home to escape an ugly family tragedy—her adult daughter, Cassie, a National Guardswoman charged with overseeing Iraqi POWs, has been incarcerated for...
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