Wescott's first novel begins his reflections on the rural Wisconsin of his childhood in a story that pits a repressed Puritanism against a more sensual appreciation of life.
From the first-edition dustjacket: "Mr. Wescott has written about his homeland, a little-known countryside of southern Wisconsin, with a deep feeling of the physical world, which is reflected in his colorful style, and an ever present sense of the pathetic and the terrible."
Wescott's first novel begins his reflections on the rural Wisconsin of his childhood in a story that pits a repressed Puritanism against a more sensual appreciation of life.
From the first-edition dustjacket: "Mr. Wescott has written about his homeland, a little-known countryside of southern Wisconsin, with a deep feeling of the physical world, which is reflected in his colorful style, and an ever present sense of the pathetic and the terrible."