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Books by William Wharton
  | | A Midnight Clear(82nd Edition) A Novel by William Wharton Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-257-6, ISBN: 1-55704-257-8 "Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts and leaving signs of their presence: a scarecrow, equipment the squad had dropped on a retreat from a reconnaissance miss ..." |
 | | Birdy(Reprint) by William Wharton Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73412-3, ISBN: 0-679-73412-0 "Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" ("Philadelphia Inquirer"), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot-tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick up girls, and his strange friend Birdy, the skinny, tongue-tied perhaps genius who only want ..." |
 | | Ever After A Father's True Story by William Wharton Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-843-1, ISBN: 1-55704-843-6 ""I've become convinced the physical life we must live out is but ephemeral. It gives me much comfort and has allowed for new experiences of a spiritual nature I've never had before." —William Wharton, from the EpilogueIn August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They' ..." |
 | | Scumbler(Reprint) by William Wharton Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-258-3, ISBN: 1-55704-258-6 "Know Scumbler in his poignant, hilarious life. Get mad at him and even cry with him. Here's Don Quixote, Santa Claus, and Faust rolled into one "thick shadow" of a man. A joyous sixty-year-old American street painter lives on the Left Bank in Paris, making a living by creating rentable apartments out of the most unlikely spaces. Mostly, however, he paints with utter delight in the creative act and discovers remarkable characters along h ..." |
 | | Dad(1st Edition) A Novel by William Wharton Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1996 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-256-9, ISBN: 1-55704-256-X "John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in the frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a beloved, dying parent. He also finds ..." |
 | | Ever After(1st Edition) A Father's True Story by William Wharton Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-223-1, ISBN: 1-55704-223-3 "In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned alive in their van.How could such a thing happen? And how could a father come to terms with such a loss? Ever After, Wharton's first mem ..." |
 | | Shrapnel(1st Edition) A Memoir by William Wharton Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-06-225737-6, ISBN: 0-06-225737-4 "Author of such classic wartime novels as Birdy and A Midnight Clear, William Wharton was one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. However, he was also a very private man—he wrote under a pseudonym and rarely gave interviews—so fans and critics could only speculate how much of his work was autobiographical and how much was fiction.Now, for the first time, we are able to read the author's own account of his experiences during ..." |
 | | Houseboat on the Seine(1st Edition) A Memoir by William Wharton Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-272-9, ISBN: 1-55704-272-1 "The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat, along with generous dollops of humor and local color. As a struggling artist in Paris with his schoolteacher wife and four children, Wha ..." |
 | | Birdy M/Tv(1st Edition) by William Wharton Paperback, 343 Pages, Published 1985 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-380-47282-6, ISBN: 0-380-47282-1 "My girl, whose name is Shirley, says maybe Birdy and Claire, ... Just then, we hear Birdy and Claire. Shirley pushes away and hooks herself up. ..." |
 | | Dad(Updated) by William Wharton Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1982 by Unknown ISBN-13: 978-0-14-006230-4, ISBN: 0-14-006230-0 |
 | | A Midnight Clear(1st Edition) by William Wharton, Donald Gordon, Thomas B. Dewey Hardcover, 241 Pages, Published 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-51967-8, ISBN: 0-394-51967-1 "Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts and leaving signs of their presence: a scarecrow, equipment the squad had dropped on a retreat from a reconnaissance miss ..." |
 | | BIRDY.(1st Edition) by William Wharton, W. Wharton's Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1979 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-005354-8, ISBN: 0-14-005354-9 "Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot-tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick up girls, and his strange friend Birdy, the skinny, tongue-tied perhaps genius who only wants ..." |
 | | Shrapnel by William Wharton Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-00-745807-3, ISBN: 0-00-745807-X "A previously unpublished wartime memoir from the acclaimed author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear. One of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation, and author of classic novels such as Birdy, A Midnight Clear and Dad, William Wharton was a very private man. Writing under a pseudonym, he rarely gave interviews, so fans and critics could only guess how much of his work was autobiographical and how much was fiction. Now, for the ..." |
 | | Birdy by William Wharton Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2012 by The Friday Project International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-00-745798-4, ISBN: 0-00-745798-7 "An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight. Birdy's passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly. A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. ..." |
 | | Shore Stories(1st Edition) An Anthology of the Jersey Shore by Richard Youmans, Kay Boyle, Robert Pinsky, Stephen Dunn, Christopher Cook Gilmore, Gay Talese, John Mcphee, Robert Kotlowitz, William Wharton, Pete Dunn, Frank Finale, Sandy Gingras, John Bailey Lloyd, Margaret Thomas Buchhholz, And Other Contributors, Joe Paduano, Gene Ahrens, Ray Fisk, Michael Baytoff, Donna Connor, Contributing Photographers Hardcover, 351 Pages, Published 1998 by Down The Shore Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-945582-50-2, ISBN: 0-945582-50-1 "This acclaimed anthology takes the reader on a literary journey along the Jersey Shore from the tip of Sandy Hook to Cape May Point. More than 40 short stories, essays and poems capture this beloved stretch of sandy beaches, bays, boardwalks, and towns, along with documentary photographs and art. Contributors include nationally celebrated authors (John McPhee, Gay Talese, Robert Pinsky, among others) as well as talented writers whose wo ..." |
 | | Wrongful Deaths Pb by William Wharton Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Books / Granta ISBN-13: 978-0-14-014070-5, ISBN: 0-14-014070-0 "In August 1988 the family of William Wharton's daughter were burnt in their car. This is their story, told like a novel in four parts. Part One is told by the daughter, Part Two by her husband, Part Three by William Wharton." |
 | | TIDINGS by William Wharton Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1990 by Sceptre ISBN-13: 978-0-340-51783-3, ISBN: 0-340-51783-2 |
 | | Dad M/TV by William Wharton Paperback, 421 Pages, Published 1989 by Harpercollins Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-380-58594-6, ISBN: 0-380-58594-4 |
 | | Franky Furbo A Novel by William Wharton Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1989 by Jonathan Cape Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-224-02625-3, ISBN: 0-224-02625-9 |
 | | Tidings(1st Edition) by William Wharton Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 1989 by Mcgraw-Hill ISBN-13: 978-0-07-069504-7, ISBN: 0-07-069504-0 "Will, a philosophy teacher at the American College in France, his wife, Lor, and their four grown children prepare to celebrate what promises to be their last Christmas together as a family" |
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