Allen Wier

• Sep-1983
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Departing as Air chronicles the memories of Jessie, now old and widowed, as she nears the end of her life and looks back on her two marriages, her emotional breakdown and recovery, and her ultimate acceptance--and celebration--of life....

• Jul-1989
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A Place For Outlaws starts off as a family novel, as warmly evocative and intimate over time as an album of family photographs, and imperceptibly, turns into a shocker, grounded in subterfuge, perversity, and violence. The overall movement brings goo...

• Aug-1989
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• Mar-1996
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Walking on Water gathers together an engaging and compellingcollection of short stories by 24 of the many talented writers to havegraduated from The University of Alabama's Program in Creative Writingover the past 20 years. Editor Allen Wier, who tau...

• Mar-2006
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"Allen Wier has imagined a way to express an epic vision of the American experiment at its crossroads. From the antebellum era, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, Wier's sizable cast of characters-African American freedmen and slaves, Native A...

• Nov-2017
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While Allen Wier is perhaps best known as a prizewinning novelist, he is also a master of the short story, an art he has perfected over four decades. Late Night, Early Morning contains twenty-two of Wier’s tales: the stories in his first c...