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Telling Time
Telling Time
Telling Time
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Telling Time

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As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go through his papers and destroy anything deemed embarrassing. The children are stunned by the request. But as they leaf through his diaries and records, they discover scandals, neuroses and deviance, leaving them to ask just how well we know the people that we love. This reissue of Telling Time opens up to a new generation one of the lost, cult heroes of American fiction.
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Release dateDec 1, 2016
ISBN9781786492142
Telling Time
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Austin Wright

AUSTIN WRIGHT was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist, literary critic and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.

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