Seaview: A Novel (Rediscovery)

By Toby Olson

Book Overview

The action of Toby Olson's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel 'Seaview' sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811208281
• ISBN13: 9780811208284
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Difficult, but well worth it

Toby Olson's novel is complex, and its details may seem tedious to undisciplined readers. However, for those willing to give their full attention to Olson's prose, you will be rewarded fascinating insights, rich characters, good humor, and most important the golf scene, which is easily the greatest description of the game of golf in American literature, and rises to the highest levels of prose American writers have written. Yes, the scene's that good - but you'll have to work for it. Oh yes - the book takes a funny turn toward the end, so stick with it. Overall, quite wonderful.

Novel about the end of westward expansion and Golf

Golf and native americans and returning home and moving east are the themes here a great novel that ends on Cape Cod after starting somewhere out west on a golf course...