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W.D. Wetherell

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Hardcover, Published in Dec 1985 by University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN10: 0822935201 | ISBN13: 9780822935209

Page count: 160

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.