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    Where the Wind Blew
    Where the Wind Blew
    Where the Wind Blew
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    Where the Wind Blew

    By Bob Sommer

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    In this powerful debut novel, Bob Sommer tells the story of a man who has lived with a secret for most of his life. No one has called Peter Howell by his own name since he belonged to a radical student group in the 1960s. After an act of sabotage that turned deadly, Peter escaped and blended into the American landscape. Decades later, he has been reincarnated as a full-fledged citizen with a family and successful business, to enjoy the affluence of the late 1990s. But his life unravels when an ambitious high school reporter uncovers his secret. So begins an odyssey that takes Peter Howell from his comfortable suburban life to the edge of human survival. The novel also explores the fate of the people in his life, both present and past—his wife and children, and those who knew him as a young man, including the girl who loved him.
    Where The Wind Blew is a sweeping view of American life told in the lyrical voice of a novelist who will keep you turning pages to the very end, and make you wish there were more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Wessex Collective
    Release dateMar 10, 2012
    ISBN9781465747082
    Where the Wind Blew
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    Bob Sommer

    Bob Sommer’s work has appeared widely in literary, scholarly, and commercial publications. He is the author of Teaching Writing to Adults and co-author of The Heath Literature for Composition. His recent freelance work and stories have appeared in The Kansas City Star, Buzzflash, Cantaraville, and other print and on-line publications. He grew up in Hyde Park, New York, and attended Dutchess Community College (A.A.), Marist College (B.A.), SUNY New Paltz (M.A.), and Duke University (Ph.D). A new novel entitled A Great Fullness is forthcoming later this year: Set in Kansas during the period from the internet bubble of the mid-1990s through the early years of the Iraq War, A Great Fullness is the story of a girl who lives with a secret that even she doesn't know she possesses—the truth about her mother's death. He and his wife Heather live in Overland Park, Kansas, where they have raised three children to adulthood.

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