The Apple of the Eye

Wescott's first novel begins his reflections on the rural Wisconsin of his childhood in a story that pits a repressed Puritanism against a more sensual appreciation of life. From the first-edition dustjacket: "Mr. Wescott has written about his homeland, a little-known countryside of southern Wisconsin, with a deep feeling of the physical world, which is reflected in his colorful style, and an ever present sense of the pathetic and the terrible."