The Meadow: A Novel - Softcover

Winkler, Scott A

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ISBN 10: 0999357425 ISBN 13: 9780999357422

Publisher: Peregrino Press, 2018

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Invisible wounds. We may think we've buried them in a place from which their sting can no longer reach us, but it does. Such wounds cut deeply, linger, metamorphose, and when they eventually surface, their consequences are dire. Such wounds motivate my novel The Meadow, a work of literary historical fiction set in America's heartland in the late 1960s. Walter Neumann struggles with his father's dream for him: that Walt forego college and serve in the Army as he had served in World War II. An accident unexpectedly enables Walt to avoid military service and pursue his own dream, but he soon discovers that dreams don’t ensure happiness. When a tragedy in the Neumann family prompts the revelation of secrets his parents have hidden for years, these secrets threaten to shatter Walt's world. Through the love and guidance of the people who matter most to him and through the redemptive power of stories, Walt arrives at a place of healing--for himself and for his family--and feels equipped to handle the difficulties he knows he, and others, will encounter in the future.

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The Meadow appeals not only to readers drawn to the long tradition of war and peace narratives in both American and World literatures, but to general readers who appreciate narratives with complex characters and an unwavering sense of time and place, allowing them to enter a world whose particulars resonate with enduring, timeless themes of love, redemption, and the healing character of stories. The Meadow is a complex but engaging narrative that refuses to compromise. The answers to the questions it poses matter and will continue to matter, explored in a lyrical, energetic prose that never betrays the depth of its subject.

About the Author:

In addition to being an author, Scott Winkler is a husband and father, a teacher and scholar, and a concerned citizen of a nation yet to achieve its potential. An alumnus of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, Scott earned both his MA and Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Scott's work, both creative and academic, has appeared in a variety of publications ranging from The Journal of Popular Culture and Contemporary Short Story Criticism to Elysian Fields Quarterly and Peninsula Pulse, among others. His debut novel, The Meadow, is a work of historical fiction addressing moral injury and its effects. Scott's first book, The Wide Turn Toward Home, is a baseball-themed collection of seven short stories and the eponymous novella; it explores hopes, dreams, and their consequences.

Scott and his family make their home in rural Wisconsin.

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