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The Wind Shifting West
The Wind Shifting West
Author: Shirley Ann Grau
This is Grau's first collection of stories since the publication of The Black Prince in 1955. The setting of the stories is sometimes the rural South, sometimes an East Coast island resort. — 18 stories in all, including these: —
  • An attractive middle-aged woman, sailing with her brother-in-law to rescue her husband, stranded in a summe...  more »
  • In a moment of unwelcome illumination, a carefully righteous young minister is suddenly charmed by the selfish, pleasure-loving father he has always despised.
  • About to marry, a young widow whose husband died in Viet Nam takes comfort from his hallucinated presence.
  • A gentle young man, afraid for the lives of his wife and child, shoots into the night and kills.
  • The only black child in school is forced by her mother and aunt to feel shame for her loneliness.
  • A man hating woman is jolted into love by a slow-witted and fanciful romantic.
ISBN-13: 9780394488905
ISBN-10: 0394488903
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 247
Edition: 1st
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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