· Lance Weller is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel WILDERNESS which has been published in English (Bloomsbury ), French (Editions Gallmeister ) and Italian (Keller Editore ). WILDERNESS was longlisted for the prestigious French literary award the Prix Médicis and was a Washington State Book Award finalist. Lance's second novel, AMERICAN . · Wilderness. by Lance Weller. Posted on Janu by Chris Mackowski. No Civil War battlefield offers a writer more metaphoric possibility than the Wilderness. Not only was the Wilderness a virtually impenetrable second-growth forest—“the dark, close wood” and “one of the waste places of nature,” as soldiers called it—but the very idea of “wilderness” suggests a place and a time Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. by Lance Weller Abel Truman lives at the very edge of the country, in a tiny shack overlooking the ocean in Washington state. His piece of land is known as “Broken Man Cove,” and Abel is indeed broken, still traumatized by the Civil War over thirty years after the last shots were fired.
Check out this great listen on www.doorway.ru Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Now an old and ailing man, Abel must make one heroic final journey over snowbound mountains. Abel's tor. Lance Weller is the author of Wilderness ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), Buzz Books ( avg rating, ratings, Lance Weller Booklist Lance Weller Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Wilderness The Wilderness is a book that describes the barbarous world of the American Civil War and the aftermath of it.
BookPage Behind the Book by Lance Weller Aug When I first started writing Wilderness, I had no specific agenda in mind other than to try and tell a good story about an old man and his dog. In its contrasts of light and dark, wild and tame, brutal and tender, and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended, Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character, but a story about who we are as human beings, a people, and a nation. Lance Weller's immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers. Lance Weller is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel WILDERNESS which has been published in English (Bloomsbury ), French (Editions Gallmeister ) and Italian (Keller Editore ). WILDERNESS was longlisted for the prestigious French literary award the Prix Médicis and was a Washington State Book Award finalist. Lance's second novel, AMERICAN MARCHLANDS, published by Editions Gallmeister in March has received glowing reviews.
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