The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse

by Philip Schultz

I, one
Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski,
Head Clerk of Closed Files,
a department of one,
work…
in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs

This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.

• ISBN10: 0393240940
• ISBN13: 9780393240948
• Publish Date: 20 May 2014 (first published 3 February 2014)
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 23 April 2017
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Format: Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
• Pages: 192
• Language: English