Summary
Set over the last half of the twentieth century, Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward is the epic story of the decline and fall of an American family.
Postwar newlyweds Chic and Diane Waldbeeser are determined to carve out a life for themselves and their son, Lomax, in Middleville, Illinois. But when ten-year-old Lomax dies, Chic and Diane take refuge in religion, haiku poetry, doll collecting, food, and bowling as they try to make sense of their overwhelming grief and guilt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472115348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472115341 |
| Author: | Ryan Bartelmay |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 508g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 155mm x 29mm |
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Ryan Bartelmay has written a sprawling, ambitious, great hearted novel about what comforts and kills us the most: family. A work of love and fear, secrets and cruelty, by a wonderful new writer.
Ryan Bartelmay achieves something like intimate sweep in this funny, soulful novel about love, time, and hope.Sharp, elegant and poignant. - BooklistMiscommunication reigns in Bartelmay’s debut novel about the inevitable attrition of self-delusions…a wistful take on the classic American reinvention tale. - Publishers WeeklyWhat a kind, warm-hearted and generous novel! Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is a splendid evocation of America s heartland and the sometimes confused, lost, desperately seeking and often comic souls that populate it.About The Author
Ryan Bartelmay
Ryan Bartelmay graduated from the University of Iowa in 1998, where he was a member of the Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop, and then went on to Columbia University to receive an MFA in fiction writing in 2005.
He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter and two cats.
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