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    The Writing on the Wall: A Novel

    By W. D. Wetherell

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    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 her life is about to change forever. It begins innocently enough—peeling the old wallpaper from the walls as a favor to the house’s owner. What she discovers underneath—written in India ink on the very walls of the house by a woman named Beth, in 1919—is the beginning of the reader’s unsettling crossing into the unknown world underneath the paper.
     
    The Writing on the Wall is a brilliantly realized journey into the connected lives of three women whose stories span a century, linked by the house they all briefly inhabit, and by the tragedies they’ve had to endure.
     
    “W.D. Wetherell is a fearless acrobat with words and narrative structures. His work, filled with humor, warmth and wisdom, asks us to re-examine our recent history.” —Chicago Tribune
     
    “W.D. Wetherell has a sharp, fresh eye and a complicated view of our dislocations, pains and dreams.” —The New York Times
     
    “Wetherell impressively captures a diversity of voices, telling distinct but parallel stories whose moral arcs resonate across time.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 8, 2012
    ISBN9781611457803
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    W. D. Wetherell

    W.D. Wetherell is a novelist, story writer, and essayist who has published more than twenty books. His World War I novel, A Century of November, was published to wide acclaim, praised as “ a small classic of language and emotion” (San Francisco Chronicle). Wetherell has published four previous books from Skyhorse/Arcade, including Summer of the Bass, On Admiration, Soccer Dad, and his latest novel, The Writing on the Wall. He resides in Lyme Center, New Hampshire.

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    • 5/5
      The story of an old house and the three unconnected women who leave their stories written on its walls to create a compelling three-part commentary on history, family, and the way people learn to view themselves. The action takes place over a period of nearly one hundred years with the house being the only constant.Magnificent manipulation of language and tremendous insight.Very clever, I loved it.