| The Writing on the Wall Contributor(s): Wetherell, W. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611457440 ISBN-13: 9781611457445 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012025976 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. And it's not just their own stories that reveal themselves. A brilliant schoolteacher, back from the war in the trenches, finds the pupils of his dreams. A young Vietnam draftee makes a stubbornly quirky separate peace. The moody, dangerously charismatic leader of a commune becomes the unlikeliest of heroes. An "ordinary" housewife's lonely battle propels her onto the national stage. A girl sent to Iraq tries making sense of the chaos and the pain. The Writing on the Wall is about stories that can't be told, but must be told--about secrets that can't be shared, but must be shared--and the surprising ways people find to confront the truth. |