A Century of November, Paperback

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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] small classic of graceful language and earned emotion.``---San Francisco Chronicle .`` . . a beautifully written novel of war and the wrenching grief and unanswerable questions it leaves in its wake. . . . A Century of November is full of precise, startling imagery and elegant, richly poetic description---Wetherell seems genuinely incapable of writing a lazy sentence---and this last section of the novel is as surreal, hypnotic and harrowing as any literature in recent memory. The whole thing, in fact, is a jewel, an unforgettable historical novel that Wetherell has carefully (and artfully) seeded with loads of contemporary resonance.`` ---Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) ``A poignant, probing story. . . . Wetherell's prose and character writing are unflinching . . .and his] take on a parent's anguish is deeply moving.``---Publishers Weekly ``A timely reminder of the devastation of mortal combat. . . .``---Atlanta Journal-Constitution