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THE BOOK OF LOST FATHERS
STORIES |
| By: |
Robley Wilson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£19.50 |
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£17.55 |
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£1.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0801867177 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780801867170 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 June, 2001 |
| Series: |
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A collection of short fiction by Robley Wilson. These stories depict ordinary, recognizable people dealing with loneliness, loss and mortality. A woman and her father experience an earthquake, a man must confront his fiancee's past, and a best man arrives late for his friend's wedding. |
| Synopsis: |
In his fifth collection of short stories, Robley Wilson treats fundamental questions of love, suffering, and humanity. "Why is it the worst things happen when you're most relaxed and your head's empty of everything serious?" These words, from the narrator of the story "Grief," are at the heart of The Book of Lost Fathers, the new collection of short fiction by Robley Wilson. These stories depict ordinary, recognizable people dealing with loneliness, loss, and mortality. A woman and her father experience an earthquake, and the incident reinforces the frailty of the dying man. A man must confront his fianc?e's past when he realizes the identity of the "stranger" they meet on vacation. A best man arrives late for his friend's wedding, only to learn that the groom has died hours before. Combining an evocative and compassionate style with familiar characters and enduring messages, Wilson treats fundamental questions of love, suffering, and humanity. His "lost fathers" provide a common thread that weaves together stories about fathers, husbands, and lovers, past and present-and the women whose lives they change. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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