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Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war.
As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he took part in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life-from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and finally to the unbearable memory of the wife and child he lost as a young man. Haunted by tragedy, loss, and unspeakable brutality, Abel has somehow managed to hold on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path.
In its contrasts of light and dark, wild and tame, brutal and tender, and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended, Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character, but a story about who we are as human beings, a people, and a nation. Lance Weller's immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers.
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What's most gorgeous here is the language, Weller's descriptions of the natural world, the changing emotional terrain within his characters, and violence. The author seems to be reminding us that the Wilderness remains both without and within. A remarkable debut, deeply affecting and heartfelt (Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander)
A brilliant, singular achievement. Deeply compelling and superbly page-turning (Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall)
Epic ... There is much to savour in this big, bold debut, including Weller's splendid descriptions of wildlife encountered in the trek (Financial Times)
A beautiful novel, resplendent in ornate, flowing prose (Glasgow Herald)
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A brilliant, singular achievement. Deeply compelling and superbly page-turning (Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall)
Epic ... There is much to savour in this big, bold debut, including Weller's splendid descriptions of wildlife encountered in the trek (Financial Times)
A beautiful novel, resplendent in ornate, flowing prose (Glasgow Herald)
Epic, heartbreaking and poetic, Wilderness is the story of the origins of a nation. It is a tale of a horrific war and the great evil it ended, of the kindness of strangers and the unbreakable bonds of memory and love
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- PublisherUlverscroft Ltd
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1444816314
- ISBN 13 9781444816310
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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