![]() His debut novel, What I’m Going to Do, I Think, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the best first novel of 1969 among other honors he received were a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the John Dos Passos Prize. What were the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century? Does the list include Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall?īeyond the Bedroom Wall, a 600-page story of a Catholic farm family in North Dakota told over four generations, was neither Woiwode’s first critically acclaimed work nor his last. In a 1975 review of Beyond the Bedroom Wall for The New York Times, the novelist John Gardner called the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award that year, “simply brilliant” and an “enormous intelligent novel.” Moreover, he added, “nothing more beautiful and moving has been written in years.” The famed book critic Jonathan Yardley included it in a 1982 list of the 22 best American works of fiction of the 20th century-a list that left off Kate Chopin, Caroline Gordon, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, J.D. ![]() Woiwode, who died on April 28 at the age of 80, sold millions of books but also earned the admiration of many literary heavy hitters. But who picks Larry Woiwode’s Beyond the Bedroom Wall? This careful plainness is the opposite of glltz: his work is solid and perfectly finished and sometimes so heartbreaking only its beauty could persuade you to endure its pain." The truth of this commendation is confirmed - beyond any doubt - in Silent Passengers."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc.What were the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century? Many would answer with the perennial favorites that were also often required reading in high school or college some will always answer with great fervor that it is Infinite Jest and there can be no further argument others insist on Ulysses, which they haven’t read. ![]() His style is dazzling and quiet at once like a highly efficient engine, his language has the power to lift you very high before you know it. His characters endure death, birth, illness and the instability of love. The stories collected here in Silent Passengers - spare, intense, tender - display his widely acknowledged talents to the greatest effect." "Although he is known chiefly for his novels, Larry Woiwode's short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and other periodicals since the sixties, has been included in four editions of Best American Short Stories (the most recent being "Silent Passengers," the title story of this collection), and has received the Aga Khan Literary Prize from The Paris Review and in 1990 his Neumiller Stories received the Southern Review/LSU Award for Short Fiction, the citation for which reads (in part): "The constancy of Woiwode's concerns through twenty-five years of storytelling is a sign of his fiction's depth. "Families on the land - mothers, fathers, children, all living beneath the exultant and demanding skies of the northern Great Plains - these are the people who populate Larry Woiwode's works and who have helped secure his celebrated place in contemporary American writing. This careful plainness is the opposite of glltz: his work is solid and perfectly finished and sometimes so heartbreaking only its beauty could persuade you to endure its pain." The truth of this commendation is confirmed - beyond any doubt - in Silent Passengers."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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