W.D. Wetherell

• Jul-1981
• / General Fiction
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When Elaine Collier, an antiques restorer, is hired by a wealthy man to eradicate from the family possessions all traces of his son's existence--a son who was killed in the Vietnam War--Elaine confronts her own and her mother's past...

• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
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A collection of short stories which recreate the America of today from the last moments of World War II to "What Peter Saw" and the first glimmers of Vietnam. The author has written "The Man Who Loved Levittown" which received the Drue Heinz Literatu...

• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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In a struggle to protect and preserve her late brother's literary legacy from the destructive forces of the Germans, Maria Pavlovna Chekhov is determined to stage a production of his play, The Seagull, in a war-ravaged theater...

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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It's 1996 and Ferris, a native New Englander as flinty and proud as the mountains around him, is once again about to predict the winners of the New Hampshire primary. He's been right in every election since 1952, when fate and a nose for news first l...

• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction
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A winner of the 1992 National Magazine Award for Fiction whose work has also been anthologized in the O. Henry Awards series, W. D. Wetherell crafts in these nine stories dead-true dialogue, compelling situations, and powerful metaphors. The result i...

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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In this rich, compulsively readable saga about the brave early years of television, "morning" means several things. It is the name of the first-ever morning show, pioneered by a visionary who believed television could reflect the lives of ordinary Am...

• Sep-2004
• / Literary
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Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novelA haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope.“Gripping, damning, and transfixing.”---Entertainment Weekly“ . . . possesses a time-bending gravi...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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When Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, Cassie, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. It begins innocently enough -- peeling the ...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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Where We Live is master story-teller W. D. Wetherell's fifth story collection, and his first in ten years, bringing together the best of his recent fictions. The stories exemplify the qualities readers and critics have praised in the past, while c...

• / General Fiction
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Magically quiet yet deeply satisfying, Macken in Love follows two middle-aged lovers who must navigate personal histories in search of the one thing that has evaded them both. 

Lonesome but loveable, 50-year-old Kevin Macken devotes his day...