Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start - but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run...
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Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start - but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run...
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Add this copy of After Gregory to cart. $10.84, new condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2017 by Atlantic Books.
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New. From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a kind of intellectual who dunnit, a novel with the thrill of the chase combined with a meditation on who we are, and who we might like to be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129...2017. Reprint. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good + in Near Fine jacket. Book First edition, First printing. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear, tiny spotting tot he top. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well packaged, All-Ways fast service.
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Very good in Fair jacket. [10], 292, [2] pages. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has a large tear at rear flap. Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start-but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run. Austin McGiffert Wright (1922-April 23, 2003) was an American novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati. Wright graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943-1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959. Austin Wright was a professor in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati for almost forty years. When he died, he had realized certain proceeds from the sale of movie rights to his book Tony and Susan, but he had no reason to believe that a film would actually be made. Tony and Susan was re-issued, and became a major film, Nocturnal Animals (2016). Derived from a Kirkus review: Sometimes indecipherable, often intriguing, this literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel may remind readers of other authors who chart the modern American search for identity. Wright's book opens with a man writing about his life. The man reveals that he was formerly known as Peter Gregory. Fleeing a past that may have involved the murder of his neighbor with a hammer, he hitches rides east, assuming and discarding aliases along the way: Murray Bree, the hitchhiker, is traded for Stephen White, the typewriter-shop employee, and so on. When an eccentric billionaire summons him to his New York office and gives him a grant he can't refuse-$30 million to become yet another new person and cut all ties to the past-he becomes the miraculously fortunate Stephen Trace. Unfortunately for Trace, the detritus of Peter Gregory's life keeps resurfacing. When his benefactor dies in a plane crash and the company's successors come after Trace for his assets, he is forced to flee once again, this time back into the past for a dramatic reconciliation. Wright skillfully conveys how we choose to elude our pasts rather than face them, molding ourselves into different people for separate occasions. While at first we grumble over seemingly meaningless names, the literary games the author plays, and the rules he breaks, the story gains clarity and absorbs us after we start worrying about what the hero is going to do with his cash. Not a mystery in the conventional sense but certainly mysterious, Wright's novel challengingly suggests that we are all con artists in flight from ourselves. An intellectual wordsmith's whodunit.
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In After Gregory, G seeeks to escape from himself by striking Faustian bargains, donning a dizzying number of personas, and then tries to find a way back.. The pleasure of the words prevails. Wright's novel, Tony & Susan, has just been re-published in England, sparking my impulse to re-read the other six.
