The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse

By Philip Schultz

Book Overview

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 mother's 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393351440
• ISBN13: 9780393351446
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"