A Century Of November

by Wetherell, W. D.

• ISBN13: 9780472114313
• ISBN10: 047211431X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-05
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel "Wetherell, a formidable artist in the tradition of the great war poets, gently increases the poundage of pressure on your heart--as well as the suspense--until you . . . are brought to the very extremities of love, hope, and despair, beyond the iron bounds of society. Gripping damning, and transfixing."---"Entertainment Weekly " . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . . . [A] small classic of graceful language and earned emotion.""---San Francisco Chronicle ." . . a beautifully written novel of war and the wrenching grief and unanswerable questions it leaves in its wake. . . . "A Century of November is full of precise, startling imagery and elegant, richly poetic description---Wetherell seems genuinely incapable of writing a lazy sentence---and this last section of the novel is as surreal, hypnotic and harrowing as any literature in recent memory. The whole thing, in fact, is a jewel, an unforgettable historical novel that Wetherell has carefully (and artfully) seeded with loads of contemporary resonance." ---"Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) ." . . an elegant, quiet book. . . . [W]hat we'd have got if Siegfried Sassoon or Rupert Brooke had chosen to write novels rather than poems. . . ."---"Speakeasy " ." . . one of the more arresting recent portraits of war's devastation."---"Booklist From the author of "Morning and "Chekhov's Sister, A Century of November is the story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope. This is the tale of Charles Marden, an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium, wherehis son, an Allied soldier in the First World War, has just died in battle at the very end of the war. Marden's single-minded mission: finding the exact spot where his son was killed. Across western Canada the Spanish flu

Author Biography

W. D. Wetherell's previous books include Morning, Chekhov's Sister, The Wisest Man in America, Souvenirs, The Man Who Loved Levittown, and Wherever That Great Heart May Be. For the last five years he has held the Strauss Living grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.