Schilling: From a Study in Lost Time

By Terrell Guillory

Fiction. "Dating from WW1 to his painful demise in the late 1940's, this book chronicles the life of rural Louisianan Dr. Schilling in elegant, mesmerizing prose. Guillory uses the perspectives of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929355092
• ISBN13: 9781929355099
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11

Customer Reviews

A complex, poetic novel with a strange, pervasive vision.

I found "Schilling" not the easiest book to read, but well worth the time and care. The prose is complex, often the syntax takes a second or even third read-through, but after awhile you get on to the rhythm of the story and it gets easier. For me, there were powerful echos of Chopin and Faulkner throughout; some might call it a southern novel in the poetic sense. I do. This is the story of a country doctor (Schilling) told from a number of angles. Most of it is set prior to WW II. The land is central to this book; indeed, I feel this book is a fair example of new-wave naturalism. This would be quite a book for someone thinking of teaching a creative writing class--and in need of new material. "Schilling" is the sort of literature that gets young writers to think about narrative form.