The Wind Shifting West [Hardcover]

Shirley Ann Grau (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394488903
• ISBN-13: 978-0394488905
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,983,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars contents:, March 31, 2004

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Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" (jamestown, ky United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wind Shifting West (Hardcover)

This is Grau's first collection of stories since the publication of The Black Prince in 1955. The setting of the stories is sometimes the rural South, sometimes an East Coast island resort.

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an attractive middle-aged woman, sailing with her brother-in-law to rescue her husband, stranded in a summer squall, is nudged by small uncertainies into her first infidelity.
In a moment of unwelcome illumination, a carefully righteous young minister is suddenly charmed by the selfish, pleasure-loving father he has always despised.
About to marry, a young widow whose husband died in Viet Nam takes comfort from his hallucinated presence.
A gentle young man, afraid for the lives of his wife and child, shoots into the night and kills.
the only black child in school is forced by her mother and aunt to feel shame for her loneliness.
A man hating woman is jolted into love by a slow-witted and fanciful romantic.
18 stories in all.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Short Stories..., March 13, 2004

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Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" (jamestown, ky United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Wind Shifting West (Hardcover)

This is Grau's first collection of stories since the publication of The Black Prince in 1955. The setting of the stories is sometimes the rural South, sometimes an East Coast island resort.

Read about:

1.an attractive middle-aged woman, sailing with her brother-in-law to rescue her husband, stranded in a summer squall, is nudged by small uncertainies into her first infidelity.
2. In a moment of unwelcome illumination, a carefully righteous young minister is suddenly charmed by the selfish, pleasure-loving father he has always despised.
3. About to marry, a young widow whose husband died in Viet Nam takes comfort from his hallucinated presence.
4.A gentle young man, afraid for the lives of his wife and child, shoots into the night and kills.
5.the only black child in school is forced by her mother and aunt to feel shame for her loneliness.
6.A man hating woman is jolted into love by a slow-witted and fanciful romantic.
18 stories in all.