Review: Wilderness by Lance Weller
No Civil War battlefield offers a writer more metaphoric possibility than the Wilderness. Not only was the Wilderness a virtually impenetrable second-growth forest-“the dark, close wood” and “one of the waste places of nature,” as soldiers called it-but the very idea of “wilderness” suggests a place and a time of being directionless and lost. One wanders through the wilderness.
Novelist Lance Weller is the latest to wander into this literary territory. In Wilderness, the tale he tells proves to be a rich, dreamlike journey.
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
Novelist Lance Weller is the latest to wander into this literary territory. In Wilderness, the tale he tells proves to be a rich, dreamlike journey.
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.