The man who loved Levittown
By: W.D. Wetherell.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Description: 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.
Notes: "The Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1985"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The man who loved Levittown; title: If a woodchuck could chuck wood; title: The lob; title: The bass, the river, and Shiela Mant; title: Nickel a throw; title: Why I love America; title: Narrative of the whale truck Essex; title: Volpi's farewell; title: North of peace; title: Spitfire autumn.