A Gravestone Made of Wheat: Stories

by Will Weaver

Book Overview

A dozen stories deal with a heartbroken widower, hunters, farmers and truck drivers living in Minnesota. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671670972
• ISBN13: 9780671670979
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great collection

A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a great collection of stories. They give off a feeling of "home" to me--maybe because most of the stories take place in Minnesota, where I am from. My favorite stories were the title story, which was so wonderful that it made me cry at the end, and "The Undeclared Major," a tale about a student from a small town who doesn't want to tell everyone what his major is because he's afraid people won't approve.These stories are fun to read and good for the soul. I recommend them to anyone (even to those not from Minnesota).

Response to author on-line interview

I just finished reading the author interview listed under Will Weaver; however, the interview published is NOT Will Weaver of Minnesota. It is William Woy Weaver. The Weaver who wrote the Billy Baggs series, Gravestone... and Red Earth, White Earth is William Weller Weaver. Thought you might want to know to correct this. I am his sister and know his name and background. I didn't know how else to write you so chose this format. Sincerely, Judy Kirby, Nevada

Warm, engaging characters who triumph over difficulties.

Weaver has written a collection of short stories that will warm your heart and make you glad that you spent time engaged in the lives and struggles of his characters. Weaver's characters are ordinary people who face extraordinary circumstances. Their determination and strength speak to depth of their character and to the integrity with which they face life.Their triumphs often come in surprising, and quite unexpected ways, that will leave any reader with a feeling of poignant satisfaction.

sated again, after reading Red Earth White Earth

If you loved Red Earth, White Earth, A Gravestone Made of Wheat will fill you in the same way...leave you quietly dreaming. Will Weaver has an extraordinary and unusual insight into the most vulnerable, unspoken parts of people, and luckily for us, an uncanny gift for writing about them.