Bob Stevenson

Bob Stevenson

by Richard Wiley
Bob Stevenson

Bob Stevenson

by Richard Wiley

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Overview

“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale.” —Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child

Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming man with a Scottish accent in the elevator of her psychiatric hospital. Unaware that he is an escaping patient, she falls under his spell, and her life and his are changed forever by the time they get to the street.

Who is the mysterious man? Is he Archie B. Billingsly, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and subject to brilliant flights of fancy and bizarre, violent fits? Or is he the reincarnation of Robert Louis Stevenson, back to haunt New York as Long John Silver and Mr. Edward Hyde? Her career compromised, Ruby soon learns that her future and that of her unborn child depend on finding the key to his identity.

With compelling psychological descriptions and terrifying, ineffable transformations, Bob Stevenson is an ingenious tale featuring a quirky cast of characters drawn together by mutual fascination, need, and finally, love.

Richard Wiley is the author of eight novels including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Ahmed’s Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Professor emeritus at the Universityof Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Tacoma, Washington.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781942658160
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Publication date: 10/11/2016
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 958,585
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Wiley is the author of Tacoma Stories (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press) and eight novels including Bob Stevenson; Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Washington State Book Award; and Ahmed’s Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and professor emeritus at the Universityof Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California, and Tacoma, Washington.

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