The Meadow - Hardcover

Winkler, Scott A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0999357484 ISBN 13: 9780999357484

Publisher: Peregrino Press, 2018

Synopsis

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 The Meadow, a work of literary historical fiction set in America's heartland.
In 1968, Walter Neumann is torn between two visions for his future: his own, which finds him attending college and pursuing a scholarly life, and his father Otto's, which envisions Walt serving in Vietnam as Otto had served in World War II.  An unexpected accident allows Walt to follow his dream, but his relief is temporary as long-hidden family secrets come to light, threatening to shatter the world as Walt knows it.  
 
The Meadow is a novel of love, sacrifice, and service set in America's heartland, but the questions and answers it poses and explores are timeless and universal, transcending history and culture with an urgency poignantly captured by Winkler's lyrical, energetic prose as Walt struggles to reconcile truths he's known his entire life with new truths necessary to his, his family's, his community's, and his nation's survival.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The Meadow appeals not only to readers drawn to the long tradition of war and peace narratives in both American and World literatures, but also 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peregrino Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0999357484
• ISBN 13: 9780999357484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244