Download or read book The Man Who Loved Levittown written by W. D. Wetherell and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1985-10-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. In Wetherell's stories a suburban retiree's assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them.