Onward Toward What We're Going Toward by Ryan Bartelmay (English) Paperback Book

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A bittersweet paean to dashed hopes and good intentions in contemporary middle America; a comic, deeply heartfelt dissection of the Dream by an exciting debut author.

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Set over the last half of the twentieth century, Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is the epic story of the decline and fall of an American family.Postwar newlyweds Chic and Diane Waldbeeser are determined to carve out a life for themselves and their son, Lomax, in Middleville, Illinois. But when ten-year-old Loxax dies, Chic and Diane take refuge in religion, haiku poetry, doll collecting, food and bowling as they try to make sense of their overwhelming grief and guilt.Meanwhile Chic s older brother, Buddy, struggles to make a life with his exotic, naive wife Lijy who is hiding a devastating secret of her own while attempting to introduce the residents of Middleville to vegetarianism and Ayurveda. (An unusual endeavour in mid-century Middle America.)Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is a bittersweet paean to failed lives and missed opportunities, and a deeply heartfelt and gloriously funny dissection of the American Dream.

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Trade paperback. A bittersweet paean to dashed hopes and good intentions in contemporary middle America. A quintessentially American tale of failed lives and missed opportunities, played out in seedy pool halls, inauspicious suburban homes and downmarket casinos, from a debut author.

Author Biography

Ryan Bartelmay graduated from the University of Iowa in 1998, where he was a member of the Undergraduate Writer's Workshop, and then went on to Columbia University to receive an MFA in fiction writing in 2005. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter and two cats.

Review

Ryan Bartelmay has written a sprawling, ambitious, great hearted novel about what comforts and kills us the most: family. A work of love and fear, secrets and cruelty, by a wonderful new writer.Ryan Bartelmay achieves something like intimate sweep in this funny, soulful novel about love, time, and hope.Sharp, elegant and poignant. - BooklistMiscommunication reigns in Bartelmay's debut novel about the inevitable attrition of self-delusions...a wistful take on the classic American reinvention tale. - Publishers WeeklyWhat a kind, warm-hearted and generous novel! Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is a splendid evocation of America s heartland and the sometimes confused, lost, desperately seeking and often comic souls that populate it.

Long Description

Set over the last half of the twentieth century, Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is the epic story of the decline and fall of an American family.Postwar newlyweds Chic and Diane Waldbeeser are determined to carve out a life for themselves and their son, Lomax, in Middleville, Illinois. But when ten-year-old Loxax dies, Chic and Diane take refuge in religion, haiku poetry, doll collecting, food and bowling as they try to make sense of their overwhelming grief and guilt.Meanwhile Chic s older brother, Buddy, struggles to make a life with his exotic, naive wife Lijy who is hiding a devastating secret of her own while attempting to introduce the residents of Middleville to vegetarianism and Ayurveda. (An unusual endeavour in mid-century Middle America.) Onward Toward What We re Going Toward is a bittersweet paean to failed lives and missed opportunities, and a deeply heartfelt and gloriously funny dissection of the American Dream.

Review Text

Ryan Bartelmay has written a sprawling, ambitious, great hearted novel about what comforts and kills us the most: family. A work of love and fear, secrets and cruelty, by a wonderful new writer.

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Ryan Bartelmay has written a sprawling, ambitious, great hearted novel about what comforts and kills us the most: family. A work of love and fear, secrets and cruelty, by a wonderful new writer.

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A bittersweet paean to dashed hopes and good intentions in contemporary middle America; a comic, deeply heartfelt dissection of the Dream by an exciting debut author.

Details ISBN1472115341 Author Ryan Bartelmay ISBN-10 1472115341 ISBN-13 9781472115348 Media Book Pages 368 Year 2015 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Format Paperback Imprint Corsair Language English Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2015-03-05 Publication Date 2015-03-04 Publisher Little Brown NZ Release Date 2015-03-04 AU Release Date 2015-03-04 We've got this

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