The Man Who Loved Levittown - Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize 1st edition

This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range.  In Wetherell?s stories a suburban retiree?s assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them.