Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

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 a world where the present is haunted and sometimes overpowered by the past, and the future holds only the possibility—never the assurance—of forgiveness.

This is Robley Wilson's sixth story collection. Speaking of his first collection, Kurt Vonnegut said, "His writing is an admirable demonstration of the continuing vitality of the short story form, and handsome proof that we are not mistaken when we continue, with Mr. Wilson, to love it so."

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Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

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 a world where the present is haunted and sometimes overpowered by the past, and the future holds only the possibility—never the assurance—of forgiveness.

This is Robley Wilson's sixth story collection. Speaking of his first collection, Kurt Vonnegut said, "His writing is an admirable demonstration of the continuing vitality of the short story form, and handsome proof that we are not mistaken when we continue, with Mr. Wilson, to love it so."

Johns Hopkins University Press

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Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

by Robley Wilson
Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

by Robley Wilson

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Overview

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 a world where the present is haunted and sometimes overpowered by the past, and the future holds only the possibility—never the assurance—of forgiveness.

This is Robley Wilson's sixth story collection. Speaking of his first collection, Kurt Vonnegut said, "His writing is an admirable demonstration of the continuing vitality of the short story form, and handsome proof that we are not mistaken when we continue, with Mr. Wilson, to love it so."

Johns Hopkins University Press


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421404622
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 02/28/2012
Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Series
Edition description: 20
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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 fiction is The Book of Lost Fathers: Stories, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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What People are Saying About This

Abraham Verghese

There is no one I know who can with a gesture, or a short piece of dialogue, convey a character's deepest emotions, and do so with such economy and precision. It feels like some kind of alchemy and it works beautifully. I have been a fan of Robley's for many years, and this is a writer at his peak.

Lee K. Abbott

Here's a collection of stories to be prized for its sly wisdom, its generous wit, and its seemingly effortlessly wrought prose. Secrets? In Robley Wilson's presence, we have nary a one.

T. C. Boyle

Stories of power and persuasion by one of the living masters of the form.

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