The Wife Of Martin Guerre
“The Wife of Martin Guerreby Janet Lewis is one of the most resonant short novels I can remember. I greatly like two other books she wrote:The Trial of Soren QvistandThe Ghost of Monsieur Scarron. She never got the attention she deserved."— Evan S. Connell, Jr.“One of the last century’s great novels.”— A Commonplace Blog“When the literary history of the second millennium is written at the end of the third, in the category of dazzling American short fiction (Janet Lewis’s)Wife of Martin Guerrewill be regarded as the 20th century'sBilly Buddand Janet Lewis will be ranked with Herman Melville.”—The New York Times“Flaubertian in the elegance of its form and the gravity of its style.”—The New Yorker“A masterpiece…a short novel that can run withBilly Budd,The Spoils of Poynton,Seize the Day, or any other.”— Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books“Janet Lewis brings the haunting qualities of fable to this novella, based on a legal case that attracted wide attention in 16th-century France and has continued to fascinate down through the years.”— Ron Hansen,The Wall Street Journal“One of the most significant short novels in English.”—Atlantic Monthly--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.