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Informationen zum Autor PHILIP F. DEAVER held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Bread Loaf. His short fiction has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1988 and has been recognized in Best American Short Stories 1995 and The Pushcart Prize XX . Deaver taught in the English Department at Rollins College and was permanent writer in residence there. He was also on the fiction faculty in the Spalding University brief residency MFA program. Klappentext "The best of these stories linger! sad and profound! like songs you sing to yourself." - New York Times "What happened to men after what happened to women" is a well-established theme of Philip F. Deaver's short fiction. The eleven stories in Silent Retreats trace the tentative journeys of men as they redefine who they are in a changed world while still coping with memory and desire in the old ways. "Deeply felt stories! rooted in the American landscape." - San Francisco Review "Deaver refuses to retreat in silence and from there springs the power of his work." - Baltimore Sun" Zusammenfassung The stories in Silent Retreats trace the tentative journeys of men as they redefine who they are in a changed world while still coping with memory and desire in the old ways. Above all, these stories chronicle a search for absolution—for the elusive freedom lurking among the very syllables of the word.
