{"product_id":"tacoma-stories-paperback","title":"Tacoma Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Wiley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has absorbed the expansive vision and drama of a novel. Read slowly, and I bet you'll want to read again.\" --\u003cb\u003eRichard Bausch\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePeace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Weather of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a strange and winsome feeling I have, reading \u003ci\u003eTacoma Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the blue sensation that Richard Wiley has made me homesick for a place I've never been, mourning the loss of friends I never had, in a life where each and every one of us is loved, however imperfectly. Think Sherwood Anderson inhabiting Raymond Carver's Northwest and you'll have a clear picture of Wiley's accomplishment.\" --\u003cb\u003eBob Shacochis\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eEasy in the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Lost Her Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn St. Patrick's Day in 1968, sixteen people sit in Pat's Tavern, drink green beer, flirt, rib each other, and eventually go home in (mostly) different directions. In the stories that follow, which span 1958 to the present, Richard Wiley pops back into the lives of this colorful cast of characters--sometimes into their pasts, sometimes into their futures--and explores the ways in which their individual narratives indelibly weave together. At the heart of it all lies Tacoma, Washington, a town full of eccentricities and citizens as unique as they are universal. The Tacoma of \u003ci\u003eTacoma Stories\u003c\/i\u003e might be harboring paranoid former CIA operatives and wax replicas of dead husbands, but it is also a place with all the joys and pains one could find in any town, anytime and anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wiley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels including \u003ci\u003eBob Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSoldiers in Hiding\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Washington State Book Award; and \u003ci\u003eAhmed's Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California, and Tacoma, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wiley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTacoma Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and eight novels including \u003ci\u003eBob Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSoldiers in Hiding\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Washington State Book Award; and \u003ci\u003eAhmed's Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California, and Tacoma, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700435882047,"sku":"9781942658542","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a316e9f19d0930645d0617fb9b59e75c.webp?v=1765016736","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/tacoma-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}