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Whirl away by Wangersky, Russell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Whirl away about?
From critically acclaimed and award-winning writer, Russell Wangersky, comes a new collection of short fiction. Everyone has something they're good at: one particular personal skill that they use to keep their lives moving forward when their worlds suddenly become difficult or near-impossible. For some, it's denial; for others, blunt pragmatism. Still others depend on an over-inflated view of self to keep criticism and doubt at bay. In his new short story collection, Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky—author of critically-acclaimed fiction and non-fiction including The Glass Harmonica, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself and The Hour of Bad Decisions— looks at what happens when people's personal coping skills go awry. These are people who discover their anchor-chain has broken: characters safe in the world of self-deception or even selfdelusion, forced to face the fact that their main line of defense has become their greatest weakness. From...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Wangersky, Russell
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen Publishers
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781771020299
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
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