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Who Will Hear Your Secrets?
Robley Wilson
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Description for Who Will Hear Your Secrets?
Paperback. A collection of stories in which a federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded; a woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be out of reach; and, an American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
A federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded. A woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be cruelly out of reach. An American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures. In the world of Who Will Hear Your Secrets? fragile human relationships are marked by lies, betrayals, suppressed memories, and rare moments of joy. Whether examining broken communications between lovers or the misunderstandings that destroy old friendships, these stories concern the issues that divide us, in ... Read more
A federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded. A woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be cruelly out of reach. An American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures. In the world of Who Will Hear Your Secrets? fragile human relationships are marked by lies, betrayals, suppressed memories, and rare moments of joy. Whether examining broken communications between lovers or the misunderstandings that destroy old friendships, these stories concern the issues that divide us, in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421404622
SKU
V9781421404622
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99-26
About Robley Wilson
Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Robley Wilson was a Guggenheim Fellow in fiction and a Nicholl Fellow in screenwriting. He has taught writing at Valparaiso University and the University of Northern Iowa. From 1969 to 2000 he edited the North American Review. Among his numerous collections of poetry and short ... Read more
Reviews for Who Will Hear Your Secrets?
Each story is expertly constructed, offering the comforts of a piece of handcrafted furniture.
Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal For decades, Robley Wilson has been one of our finest short story writers; this volume of sly, subtle tales will show you why. Reader's Digest A masterful writer knowledgeable of his characters' deepest needs and sympathetic to their plight.
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Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal For decades, Robley Wilson has been one of our finest short story writers; this volume of sly, subtle tales will show you why. Reader's Digest A masterful writer knowledgeable of his characters' deepest needs and sympathetic to their plight.
... Read more