Wilton Barnhardt is the author of three other novels: Gospel, Show World, and Lookaway, Lookaway. A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he teaches fiction in the master of fine arts in creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives.
"With a polished assurance rare in a first novel...Wilton Barnhardt unreels flashy scene after scene in convincing detail and sharp, snappy dialogue...the kind of shooting star that will make readers watch the skies eagerly for Barnhardt's next one." --Susan Allen Toth, The Washingtion Post Book World "This is an immensely winning book." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Heir to Holden Caulfield...An affecting first novel, full of feeling without being sentimental." --Financial Times (London) "New novelists are plentiful. New novelists who create memorable characters, an insightful story, and thoughtful wit are rare. Wilton Barnhardt is one of the rare ones." --Rebecca Warburton Boylan, Newsday "Emma is a winner--a book of enormous charm....One of the most promising fictional debuts in many years." --Publishers Weekly "Big, funny, engaging, unsentimental...delightful." --New York Post
New York beckons, and sophomore theater major Gil Freeman leaves Southern Illinois University to share an apartment in the Village with ``TWO WHOLE WOMEN,'' aspiring artist Lisa, a friend from SIU, and aspiring poet Emma. Through a decade of ups and downs and menial jobs, beguilingly neurotic Emma is the lodestone in narrator Gil's life, saving him occasionally from despair, always from boredom. Eventually Gil will make it to Broadway (and to the truth about his acting), Emma will be published, and there will be a consummation of their relationship. By then the energetic irrepressibility of this coming-of-age story, with its realistic flavor of the city, winds down. A promising first novel for its ease and humor alone; almost better in parts (occasionally overly clever) than as a whole.-- Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty . P . L . , Va.
"With a polished assurance rare in a first novel...Wilton Barnhardt unreels flashy scene after scene in convincing detail and sharp, snappy dialogue...the kind of shooting star that will make readers watch the skies eagerly for Barnhardt's next one." --Susan Allen Toth, The Washingtion Post Book World "This is an immensely winning book." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Heir to Holden Caulfield...An affecting first novel, full of feeling without being sentimental." --Financial Times (London) "New novelists are plentiful. New novelists who create memorable characters, an insightful story, and thoughtful wit are rare. Wilton Barnhardt is one of the rare ones." --Rebecca Warburton Boylan, Newsday "Emma is a winner--a book of enormous charm....One of the most promising fictional debuts in many years." --Publishers Weekly "Big, funny, engaging, unsentimental...delightful." --New York Post
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