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Other People's Love Affairs

Audiobook
Fiction: Short Stories
Unabridged   6.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/21/2018

Other People's Love Affairs

Stories

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684416448
Digital Download ISBN:9781684416455

Summary

In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these interconnected stories will strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.

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In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these interconnected stories will strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.

In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen's Other People's Love Affairs, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks, their small triumphs, and their generous capacity for grace.

A young nurse, reeling from the disappearance of her mother, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant who might know why her mother vanished. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where, as a teenager, he and an older woman had secret trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story, a shopkeeper's vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful, these stories mark the debut of a remarkable new talent.

Reviews/Praise

“Ferguson gives voice to Owen's exploration of the many aspects of love and longing. With a variety of accents he gives characters their own voices and personalities, and his careful, concise delivery allows the listener to revel in Owen's exquisite language.”—AudioFile

“Owen’s ability to convey the beauty and grace in small moments of loss and connection, heartbreak and triumph, signals a rare new literary voice, whose words will echo in your head long after you read them.” —Nylon.com

“Owen’s stories are uniformly moving.” —Kirkus Reviews

“D. Wystan Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating—loudly, devastatingly—again and again.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

Author Bio

D. Wystan Owen holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space, the American Scholar, Literary Hub, and the Threepenny Review, where he is deputy editor. A citizen dually of the United States and the United Kingdom, he now lives in Northern California.