Getting Right

Suppose your more than mildly irritating leech of a sister calls you, as she usually does wanting money, only this time she says instead that she has cancer and in the course of the conversation challenges you to write the story of her life. You say, sure, you'll do that but you'll tell it the way you see it. The tale that emerges involves not only the dying sister, Connie, but brother Len as well. And it's also about "me," the sibling invited to narrate their shared story and whose interplay of memory and imagination raises the question of whether "the truth" of Connie's life - or of anyone's for that matter - can ever be known.

About the author

Gary D. Wilson is a fiction writer who currently lives in Chicago, where he writes and teaches novel and short story writing at the University of Chicago. His best-selling first novel, Sing, Ronnie Blue, appeared in 2007.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Wilson, Gary D. Wilson, Wilson Gary D.
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781785351891
• ISBN: 978-1-78535-189-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, GIFT - FICTION, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHIES