Winslow in Love by Kevin Canty Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday February 2005 $23.95US ISBN: 0-3855-1366-6

A major new novel from Kevin Canty tells the story of two bruised characters: a failing poet/professor and a fragile and a self-destructive young student, as they crash toward a new life.

Reviews
"Raw. Rare. Honest. Beautifully written. Winslow in Love is one of those novels that come along every now and then, making sense of the ruin and rush of our lives. The ongoing dream is to escape towards who we once were -- and Winslow, a great brokendown drunken poet, manages to get there with a shattering grace. By avoiding all the clichés; by embracing sentiment without sentimentality; by taking the hard curve, Canty has written a significant American novel. Praise be."
--Colum McCann

"A great American road trip novel -- improbable, scary and transcendent."
--Joy Williams

"Kevin Canty opens up the shame, the surprise, the beauty, and the undeniable comedy of human beings persisting in their lives and in love. Emily Dickinson, Route 66 and Winslow in Love. It doesn't get better than this."
--Amy Bloom

About the Author
Kevin Canty is the author of A Stranger in This World and Into the Great Wide Open for which he received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Association award. His short work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Details, and Story. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.