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    Wise Men: A Novel

    Written by Stuart Nadler

    Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark

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    About this audiobook

    Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod.

    It's in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that Arthur's teenage son, Hilly, makes friends with Lem Dawson, a black man whose job it is to take care of the house but whose responsibilities quickly grow. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers.

    Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah, in an attempt to right the wrongs he helped set in motion. But can his guilt, and his good intentions, overcome the forces of history, family, and identity?

    A beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret, Wise Men confirms that Stuart Nadler is one of the most exciting young writers at work today
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9781478978244
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    Wise Men: A Novel
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    Stuart Nadler

    Stuart Nadler is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Recently, he was the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in the Atlantic. He is the author of the story collection The Book of Life.

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    • 4/5
      I did not like this book in the beginning - do not like self-destructive characters, slow and was not coming together. However, at part 2 this book became more interesting and ended strong.
    • 4/5
      Good book. Author takes superior characterizations and ties them up in neat bundles that survive the passing of several decades. Son tries to come to grips with both his father's sins and his own. Lots of father-son drama, and a hard look at racism.
    • 4/5
      Refers to father and son Wise, the father extremely rich lawyer who made/makes his money with class action suits against airlines after plane crashes; the son wants nothing to do with him or his money. The son's relationship with Lem, the Afreican-American caretaker of their home on Cape Cod, and Lem's niece Savannah...
    • 3/5
      In 1952 Hilly Wise is seventeen and a bit naive when his father Arthur becomes a nationally famous lawyer. Art Wise makes a fortune suing the airline industry in the decades before tort reform. Seemingly overnight the Wise family is instantly wealthy and Art Wise celebrates by purchasing, among many things, a home near Cape Cod. It is there that Hilly meets Lem, an African American handy man and his beautiful niece, Savannah. Instantly smitten, Hilly befriends both Lem and Savannah, which results in devastating consequences for both families.SPOILER!!!I think my one real quibble with Wise Man was how very scant the relationship between Hilly and Savannah was. While it's romantic to think someone could be haunted for fifty plus years by someone they only spoke to a couple of times and kissed once, it's not very believable. What would have made for a fascinating novel is the story of Arthur Wise. A self made man who rose from lower middle class to incredibly wealthy and powerful. And along the way managed to keep a secret that would have been devastating to a man of his standing in the mid twentieth century.
    • 4/5
      I found that the book jacket did not do this book justice; I picked it up and thought, "meh." However, the narrative quickly pulled me in. While the boy, Hilly, himself is not necessarily a strong or memorable character, his father certainly is. The story itself is well-written and well-paced, with an extremely satisfying ending (very rare these days, it seems).