W D Wetherell: 8 books

The award-winning author of The Writing on the Wall celebrates the heroes and heroines who have inspired him throughout his life.   In a refreshing departure from today’s celebrity worship cultivated by reality television, tabloid photos, and social media, award-winning novelist W. D. Wetherell’s...

“Wetherell is a good fisherman, a better writer, and a most agreeable companion who has a deep feeling for the natural world in which his quarry swim” (Chicago Tribune). A River Trilogy combines three classic works on fly fishing by W. D. Wetherell. Contained here are some of Wetherell’s...

The award-winning author of A Century of November explores the lives of three women—separated by decades but connected by one house.   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, she has no idea...

From a writer with “a sharp, fresh eye,” comes his reflection on parenting, empty-nest syndrome, and the joy of watching a son reach his goals (The New York Times).   When Matt enters his senior year of high school, his father can’t help but feel some mixed emotions. What is his role in shaping...

Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel A 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 gravity. . . . [A]...

The black bass is not only the most popular American gamefish, fished for by millions, but is also one of the country's most iconic creatures, embodying many of the traits and virtues we like to think of as typically American. And yet, despite the hundreds of "how-to" books published on bass fishing...

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...

An analysis of works written during the Great War—while the fate of the world was still unknown—by W. B. Yeats, Edith Wharton, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others.   Since the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around memoirs written in the years...