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We Agreed to Meet Just Here (Awp Award Series in the Novel)
We Agreed to Meet Just Here - Awp Award Series in the Novel Author:Scott Blackwood Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel (Robert Eversz, Judge), We Agreed to Meet Just Here is a lyrical mystery about disappearance, told in precise and luminous prose. A young lifeguard in an Austin suburb vanishes one night while returning from a screening of The Third Man. A doctor, ill with cancer, goes missing from his hom... more »e, and is later seen, bearded and ragged, wandering the aisles of a grocery store. A car is stolen, the unseen consequences tragic. One child is given up to adoption, another is lost up a tree. The absences are so keenly felt, in the drifting lucidity of the author's sentences, that every reappearance reads like a small miracle.« less