The Wind Shifting West

by Shirley Ann Grau

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Wind Shifting West, The, by Grau, Shirley Ann This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394488903
• ISBN13: 9780394488905
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

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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. Read about: an attractive middle-aged woman, sailing with her brother-in-law to rescue her husband, stranded in a summer squall, is nudged by small uncertainies into her first infidelity.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.18 stories in all.

Short Stories...

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. Read about: 1.an attractive middle-aged woman, sailing with her brother-in-law to rescue her husband, stranded in a summer squall, is nudged by small uncertainies into her first infidelity.2. In a moment of unwelcome illumination, a carefully righteous young minister is suddenly charmed by the selfish, pleasure-loving father he has always despised. 3. About to marry, a young widow whose husband died in Viet Nam takes comfort from his hallucinated presence.4.A gentle young man, afraid for the lives of his wife and child, shoots into the night and kills.5.the only black child in school is forced by her mother and aunt to feel shame for her loneliness.6.A man hating woman is jolted into love by a slow-witted and fanciful romantic.18 stories in all.