Witches on the Road Tonight

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Witches on the Road Tonight by Sheri Holman, Grove Atlantic
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Sheri Holman ISBN: 9780802195975
Publisher: Grove Atlantic Publication: March 1, 2011
Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press Language: English
Author: Sheri Holman
ISBN: 9780802195975
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Publication: March 1, 2011
Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press
Language: English

“This richly layered novel” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger explores Americana, witchcraft, love, and betrayal (People, starred review).

As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley’s quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother’s witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his mother’s unorthodox life, Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town.

He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. When he opens his family’s door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boy’s presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother.

As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past in this gripping novel that “explores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real lives” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing . . . [her] most ambitious and successful yet.” —People, starred review

“Holman has an imagination that is both capacious and meticulous, and by turns somber and antic . . . Witches on the Road Tonight is a path into her work that beckons, with strange lights and mysterious apparitions.” —Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Mysterious, beautiful, and immediately engrossing . . . A tour de force of meticulous research brought urgently to life by headlong, transporting prose.” —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach and A Visit From the Goon Squad

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

“This richly layered novel” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger explores Americana, witchcraft, love, and betrayal (People, starred review).

As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley’s quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother’s witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his mother’s unorthodox life, Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town.

He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. When he opens his family’s door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boy’s presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother.

As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past in this gripping novel that “explores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real lives” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing . . . [her] most ambitious and successful yet.” —People, starred review

“Holman has an imagination that is both capacious and meticulous, and by turns somber and antic . . . Witches on the Road Tonight is a path into her work that beckons, with strange lights and mysterious apparitions.” —Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Mysterious, beautiful, and immediately engrossing . . . A tour de force of meticulous research brought urgently to life by headlong, transporting prose.” —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach and A Visit From the Goon Squad

More books from Grove Atlantic

Cover of the book Badger Games by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book Bongwater by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book Exploding Data by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Killing Habit by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Middle East and Islamic World Reader by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book Perlmann's Silence by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Best Game Ever by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Empire of Night by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Hired Man by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book The Raw Shark Texts by Sheri Holman
Cover of the book How I Became a Famous Novelist by Sheri Holman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy