The Grandmothers

Name: The Grandmothers
Author: Glenway Wescott

by Glenway Wescott

Novel exploring family history through recollections of Wisconsin grandmothers and ancestors

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Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott was a Wisconsin-born expatriate novelist whose The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk are elegant, subtle masterworks of American Modernism. His later life as a literary socialite overshadowed his small but distinguished body of fiction.

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