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Reissue of David Wheldon’s The Viaduct

David Wheldon’s 1983 novel The Viaduct has been   reissued by Valancourt  in the USA.
Wheldon was a writer and medical doctor who also published research into treatments of Multiple Sclerosis. He died in January 2021.

This reissue has been a long time coming. When first published in 1983 the novel won the Triple First Award with judges Graham Greene and William Trevor. It was published in the UK and the USA and was compared it to the works of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. His next novel also attracted high praise, and will also soon be reissued by Valancourt.

But his subsequent books failed to gain wide attention and in fact, to judge by Google rank, up until recently his name was better associated with antibiotic treatments of Multiple Sclerosis.

The reissue of The Viaduct was reviewed on Nov 21st by the Times Literary Supplement . This allegory is back to haunt another generation.

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