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The Wherewithal : a Novel in Verse by Schultz, Philip is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Wherewithal : a Novel in Verse about?
One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know.Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Years of Extermination I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mothers diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.
Who reads The Wherewithal : a Novel in Verse?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Schultz, Philip
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393240948
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (43 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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