Richard Wiley won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction for Soldiers in Hiding, his first novel. He has lived and taught in Korea, Japan, Kenya, and Nigeria, and is the author of Fools » Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Indigo, and Ahmed »s Revenge. He is currently aprofessor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Wiley isalso on the executive board of the North American Network of Citites of Asylum.
8 Ebooks par Richard Wiley
Richard Wiley: Soldiers in Hiding
It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and …
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Richard Wiley: Indigo
The principal of an international school in Africa, American widower Jerry Neal becomes involved with a group of Nigerian dissidents planning a coup, a relationship that leads to his transformation i …
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Richard Wiley: Commodore Perry’s Minstrel Show
In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and ‘opened’ Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel show …
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Richard Wiley: Ahmed’s Revenge
Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling—before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder …
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Richard Wiley: Festival for Three Thousand Women
Festival for Three Thousand Maidens is set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both …
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Richard Wiley: Fools’ Gold
Wiley brings together a variegated cast of characters in one of the last outposts of the American frontier, Alaska, during the gold rush of the 1890s. …
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Richard Wiley: Bob Stevenson
“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale …
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Richard Wiley: Tacoma Stories
“Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has absorbed the expansive vision and drama of a novel. …
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