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Overview

The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America.

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After a 30-year absence from publishing due to a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed, Rhodes is back with a novel featuring July Montgomery, the hero of his 1975 novel, Rock Island Line, which movingly involves him with the fates of several characters who live in the small town of Words, Wis. Through July, we meet Olivia Brasso, an invalid who loses her family's savings at a casino; parolee Wade Armbuster, who befriends Olivia after she is mugged; Winifred Smith, Olivia's new pastor; Jacob Helm, a widower who finds himself falling in love with Winnie; Gail Shotwell, a local musician who has an unusual reaction when her idol offers to record one of her songs; and Gail's brother, Grahm, and his wife, Cora, who blow the whistle on the milk cooperative that has been cheating them and other farmers. It takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed. (Oct.)

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Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, Rhodes's first novel in over 30 years is set in a rural area of Wisconsin so remote and forgotten that it's left off the map. Most of the residents have chosen to be isolated from the world around them and one another. Nevertheless, their concerns-the meaning of spirituality, family, love, and desire-are global and universal. The half-dozen or so subplots include an elderly man overcoming his mistrust of the area's recent Amish immigrants, a farm couple battling corporate and government corruption, and a sheltered disabled woman whose life changes radically. In the end, it eventually becomes clear that July Montgomery, a loner with a secretive past, is the glue that holds the community together. The characters and their struggles come vibrantly alive, though Rhodes's didactic authorial voice at times overwhelms the narrative and seeps into the dialog. Recommended for regional and larger public libraries.
—Christine DeZelar-Tiedman

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781571310682
  • Publisher: Milkweed Editions
  • Publication date: 5/5/2009
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 103,397
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)
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  • Posted October 15, 2009

    accurate settings

    Being a retired Wisconsin farm wife, I found the settings and the stories most accurate and true to life. We were members of the NFO and my husband escaped alive from an accident similar to the one at the end. Excellent writing that holds one interest and attention to detail makes you feel as if you have know the characters all your life. I really enjoyed the book.

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  • Posted November 30, 2010

    Highly Recommended - I'm ordering his earlier books today - all 3 of them

    Wonderful use of language - reminds me of Wallace Stegner who with Steinbeck are my favorite authors. Great highly differentiated and believable characters and a twisty plot. I'm reading it for a second time to enjoy the language now that I know the plot and characters. It's that good. Just ordered it for my sister. Hope the earlier books (written 30 years ago) are even almost as good. (He was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed after his first three acclaimed novels.) This book has NOTHING to do with his paralysis or struggle back - pure fiction. Very pure.

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  • Posted September 3, 2009

    Driftless

    A complex array of characters, interestingly intertwined, in a well described rural setting. Occasionally the characters' decisions or behavior stretch the imagination a bit, but in general one can identify with them and their struggles, emotional, spiritual, and economic. I actually got very drawn in, and finished the book in record time. The accident near the end might seem contrived to people with no experience with farming, but I have known 2 such accidents, so I'm sure they are not infrequent.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2009

    great book!

    I loved this book and would reccomend it to anyone. I read it in
    short spurts and savored it like a good wine. Reads like poetry and
    I have saved it to read again. Ordered his other older books. Love
    the way he writes!!

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  • Posted January 29, 2012

    A story that lives inside you long after it is read...

    After reading this novel, I am convinced that I carry the genetic memory of grandparents (who left Gillingham WI for Madison many, many years ago). While I visit Hart's Hollow regularly, I am an outsider. An alien from "the big city". Despite my tenuous ties to the driftless area, this book haunted me... It describes "unincorporated Wisconsin" with eerie accuracy. Its description of the culture was both warmly familiar and oddly disturbing. It is one of those books that is unassuming while you read it, but it lives in your soul. Little bits float to the surface of your thoughts every so often. Just a tib-bit for you to chew on long after the book has been read.

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  • Posted March 12, 2011

    highly recommend

    If you're familiar with the driftless area of Wisconsin, this book is like finding the motherlode of morel mushrooms in the woods. I savored every word.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2009

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    Wonderful Book!!!

    Loved this book and would recomend it to anyone. Reads like poetry.
    Will keep it to read again. Have ordered his older books.

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