Wise Men

Name: Wise Men
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Stuart Nadler
ISBN: 9781666607819

Author: Stuart Nadler

Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 03/05/2013

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod. It's in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that Arthur's teenage son, Hilly, makes friends with Lem Dawson, a black man whose job it is to take care of the house but whose responsibilities quickly grow. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah, in an attempt to right the wrongs he helped set in motion. But can his guilt, and his good intentions, overcome the forces of history, family, and identity? A beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret, Wise Men confirms that Stuart Nadler is one of the most exciting young writers at work today.

About Stuart Nadler

Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he was also the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of the story collection The Book of Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philippe on March 30, 2015

There are literary places. A geographical conjunction of human and social factors able to create the drama. It was for Proust Cabourg and the Grand Hôtel. Cap Code belongs to this places. US aristocracy meet between here. This human society has its own codes and rituals. They live protected in magni......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ronan on August 06, 2013

I love first novels. So much promise and such a thrill when a first-time author has written a really good book. Stuart Nadler has written a first novel and it's a really, really good book: Wise Men. The story begins in a fictional Cape Cod town located between Wellfleet and Truro where Art Wise has b......more

Goodreads review by Jeri on June 09, 2015

This book was such a disappointment. It was selected based on the interesting description but sadly the story itself did not live up to the book jacket. I don't think this is a story about fathers and sons at all, nor is it about racial violence. There is a father and a son in the story; and racial......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on September 09, 2024

Found Stuart Nadler's debut novel an entertaining read and one of the most interesting I've encountered recently. Thought Nadler captured the various time frames really well and his characters were generally well defined. Hilly Wise was an excellent narrator of his life and how his past follies haunte......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca I on June 08, 2018

This book is written by someone who is a product of the Iowa Writer's Workshop so it is no surprise that it was a very good book. Also Iowa has a bit part. Mostly the story is about a father and son and their relationship as well as the way the times they are living in shape them. The 1950s through......more