Valentine

A debut novel set in 1970s Texas, which looks at the fallout in a small community after a young woman is brutally attacked in a oilfield. Explores the way in which women live in a world of violent men. 'This is the very definition of a stunning debut' Anne Patchett

About the author

Elizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Iowa Review, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas, she lives and works in Chicago.

Summary

A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Wetmore
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780008331924
• ISBN: 978-0-00-833192-4
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Texas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, English, 20th Century, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 21st Century, Modern & contemporary fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political / legal thriller, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Hispanic & Latino