Willy Slater's Lane: A Novel

By Mitch Wieland

Book Overview

The eccentric middle-aged Kern brothers have lived out their lives on an isolated backroad in rural Ohio, an area being surrounded by a strip-mining operation. The elder brother Harlan's mistrust of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870744089
• ISBN13: 9780870744082
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

I'm still trying to figure out how he did it

Hi, I'm Patricia's husband, Don. I just finished reading Willy Slater's Lane in one afternoon--I couldn't put it down. I read a lot of fiction, but very, very seldom read a novel straight through. Though nothing much happens in the lives of the characters (simply because of who they are), Mr. Wieland managed to pull me in with his terrific writing. It's a damn good book with an important message.

Another Boise Reader

Another reviewer described this book as one he/she "could not put down." Hmmmm....I didn't have that experience. However, two years after reading the book I still vividly remember Harlan, Erlan and Elizabeth and their strange, or strangely quiet?, lives. I recommend the book not for page-turning urgency or edge-of-the seat excitement but for quality characterizations and quiet energy. Give it a try! I'm buying a second copy today as a gift, and I'm not an easy sale.

a good read for everyone

I love this book! It's a short novel about two brothers having to make it on their own when their parents pass away. They're both different people and both representative of many of us in one sense or another. I couldn't put the book down. The lives of these two men have much to say to each of us about our own.