Along with his new novel, Cargill Falls, William Lychack is the author of five previous books: The Wasp Eater (a novel), The Architect of Flowers(stories), a cultural history of cement, and two titles for children.

Along with his new novel, Cargill Falls, William Lychack is the author of five previous books: The Wasp Eater (a novel), The Architect of Flowers(stories), a cultural history of cement, and two titles for children.

William Lychack’s THE WASP EATER is a gem of a book, at 164 pages more of a novella than a novel. William Lychack is the author of two novels: The Wasp Eater and the forthcoming Cargill Falls, along with a collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers

William Lychack’s THE WASP EATER is a gem of a book, at 164 pages more of a novella than a novel. It is written in beautifully spare prose. William Lychack is the author of two novels: The Wasp Eater and the forthcoming Cargill Falls, along with a collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and on National Public Radio's This American Life. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Books by William Lychack. Mor. rivia About The Wasp Eater.

Toggle navigationMENU. Poor Dan can only exhale when Bob takes him for rides on the back roads: The man and the boy, Lychack calls them, to underscore the power of the adult, the helplessness of the child

Toggle navigationMENU. Poor Dan can only exhale when Bob takes him for rides on the back roads: The man and the boy, Lychack calls them, to underscore the power of the adult, the helplessness of the child. Still, an enterprising child can exert considerable power, as Dan shows when he boards a bus for New York, intent on redeeming his mother’s ring and making their circle whole again.

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The Wasp Eater is his first book. Format Paperback 170 pages. Dimensions 124 x 203 x 15mm 181g. Publication date 07 Nov 2005. Publisher Mariner Books. Publication City/Country Boston, MA, United States. The simplicity and clarity of Lychack's writing are effective in their precise portrayal of a child's mind. -Jeremy Jackson show more.

Corrigan says the book, about a dysfunctional family splitting up in late '70s Connecticut, succeeds at a small goal: conveying the ordinary sadness of connecting with other human beings. Corrigan says the book, about a dysfunctional family splitting up in late '70s Connecticut, succeeds at a small goal: conveying the ordinary sadness of connecting with other human beings. William Lychack, 'The Wasp Eater'.

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William Lychack is an American writer. He wrote the novel, The Wasp Eater, and a collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers.

Books Publications Events About Contact. In how it slows down the world, William Lychack’s Cargill Falls achieves something quite unexpected: this is a book that makes your heart drum loudly, that leaves you breathless under the tall canopy of a forest in Connecticut in the 1980s, that pulls you toward a single day’s burning, bright core. Not since William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow has a novel captured so wondrously the landscape of youth, regret, mystery, and violence, and done it with such tenderness, humor, and raw, wild energy.

The Wasp Eater has an uncanny precision about love and forgiveness. Set in an old New England mill town in 1979, The Wasp Eater is the story of a nine-year-old boy's dream of reuniting his estranged parents, and is a haunting tale of characters caught in the crossfire of their desires and fears.