Edward Whittemore

“This heady mixture of the philosophical and the dramatic runs throughout the book, the one underlying the other, and the result, unlikely…

— Edward Whittemore

“Like many authors belonging to that large and unfortunate caste, “the unjustly neglected”, Whittemore suffers from being an embarrassingly good read. He…

— Edward Whittemore

“Once again, Whittemore escapes what might be a fatal mistake in another author. Far from the funhouse hall of mirrors one might…

— Edward Whittemore

“No, no guns, they won’t get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it’s a useless interim game. Use…

— Edward Whittemore

“From the decks of the warships the foreign sailors watched the massacre through binoculars and took pictures. The navy bands played late…

— Edward Whittemore

“What this amounts to, and what makes the critic with his nose for genre and structure so nervous, is that by all…

— Edward Whittemore

“Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern’s words,…

— Edward Whittemore

“The conversation can be serious, too, taking on the form of a grave philosophical discourse as the characters take turns to expound…

— Edward Whittemore

“The distant rumble of gun fire and armored vehicles is the rumble of history itself, bearing down on Whittemore’s characters as they…

— Edward Whittemore

“… so it isn’t true any longer that we can just create ourselves. Now we must. Our childhood as a race is…

— Edward Whittemore

“Yes. Despite the ultimate mystery of the universe there’s still one small truth we can live by. Choice. Never merely to take…

— Edward Whittemore

“… a night twenty years ago and forever and but a prelude to the century, but a shadow of the far deeper…

— Edward Whittemore

“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as…

— Edward Whittemore

“… and just as suddenly he was with Stern and it was a night twenty years ago in a city once called…

— Edward Whittemore

“The real protagonists of the Quartet are surely the parched and beautiful deserts of the biblical lands, with their oases and ruins,…

— Edward Whittemore

Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

— Edward Whittemore

“And you’ll like him, the cobbler, you’ll all like him. He has amusing stories to tell and he’s much better on dates…

— Edward Whittemore

“It seems that’s it for me and what’s a soul to do then? What’s a soul to do?” “Simply go on loving…

— Edward Whittemore