In The Wink Of An Eye (Voices of the South) [Paperback]

Kelly Cherry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2004 | Series: Voices of the South

In the Bolivian backcountry, a band of inept guerrillas begins a revolution that unexpectedly snowballs into a wildcat worldwide movement. First, a shady German industrialist, with an obsession for big deals and big women, devises a scheme to expand the revolt into all of South America. Then the president of the United States embraces the overthrow as part of a vast Western Hemisphere plan. When irate citizens in Tulsa, New York, and London get involved, along with the queen mother and the pope, the insurrection takes on global—and even cosmic—dimensions. First published in 1983, Kelly Cherry’s political cartoon of a novel offers a captivating cast of characters whose zany doings make an important point about the indomitable power of the human spirit to dream a better future.

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About the Author

Kelly Cherry is the author of six novels—including Augusta Played and, most recently, We Can Still Be Friends—one story collection, and many volumes of poetry. She is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and sometimes serves as Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Humanities Center of the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She lives in Halifax, Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 305 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr (August 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807129666
• ISBN-13: 978-0807129661
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,517,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kelly Cherry is the author of twenty books of fiction (long and short), poetry, memoir, essay, and criticism. She has also published eight chapbooks and translations of two classical dramas. Her most recent titles are The Woman Who: Stories, The Retreats of Thought: Poems, and Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & The Writing Life. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South and has won three PEN/Syndicated Fiction awards. Her story collection The Society of Friends (which has nothing to do with the Society of Friends) received the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for Short Fiction for the best collection published in 1999. For her poetry she received the Hanes Prize for a body of work. Her new and selected poems, titled Hazard and Prospect, was a finalist for the Poets' Award. Cherry says, "I write because I have ideas that can be realized only by writing. Luckily, I love to write. And I love the thought that somewhere there may be someone who reads my work and responds to the heart of what I write."

Another book of poems is scheduled for 2013. She is completing a new book of stories and working on a book-length poem. After that there will be another book of stories (the third in her trilogy of short story collections set in Madison, Wisconsin), a memoir, and a novel.