PRAISE FOR THE WORKS OF WILLIAM WHARTON

“Wharton’s books could not

be about sadder, crazier people and

circumstances, and out of the insanity,

out of the pain, he lifts . . . spirits,

teaching . . . tenderness.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Shrapnel

“A raw, often farcical, sometimes brutal, and occasionally

tragic account of the bloody business of soldiering, this book is

the real-life counterpart of the World War II novels of

Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell.”

—Charles Lambert, author of Little Monsters

Birdy

“A writer’s triumph and a reader’s delight.”

—Toni Morrison

A Midnight Clear

“It is a modest inquiry into war, youth, and

extinction. It is also remarkable.”

—Thomas R. Edwards, New York Times

Dad

“This is a great American novel. Wharton’s

eye is sharp as an eagle’s; his pitch, perfect;

his understanding of the emotions deeply moving.

He reaches us, crucially, naturally, where we live.”

—Rebecca Sinkler, Philadelphia Inquirer