Why Won't You Talk To Me?

by Richard Duggin

Overview

Here are 9 poignant tales about the leavers and the left, the deceivers and the deceived, those searching and those sought after in the human heart's often painful and always conflicted hunt for love. These stories have been selected from among the many Richard Duggin has published in literary venues over the years, and they share in subject and theme our common struggle to communicate one to another what our deepest emotions have no language to express.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013644601
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	11/02/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	289 KB

About the Author

Richard Duggin was born and raised in New England and now lives with his wife Cynthia in Omaha, Nebraska, where he has taught fiction writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for more than forty-five years. He is founder of the UNO Writer's Workshop, a four-year BFA degree program in creative writing, and of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing, a low-residency two-year graduate program.

Duggin's published work includes two books of fiction, The Music Box Treaty and Why Won't You Talk To Me?, as well as short stories which have appeared in such periodicals as American Literary Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Sun, Playboy, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and he has been a resident in the artist's retreats at Ragdale, Yaddo and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Editorial Reviews

I love the quiet ease of Duggin's prose and the stories in this collection showcase that style beautifully. There is a marvelous quality to these stories that brings me into how these characters feel about pivotal yet ordinary moments in their lives...The way that these stories pull me into how the characters feel about such moments, I couldn't be more interested if these were crises in my own life. I literally could not put the book down.

D.S. Atkinson

I love this book! Duggin deftly depicts the raw emotions...that lurk within the underpinnings of intimacy. You'll recognize his characters: the ex-wife pleading for an audience with her ex-husband, as observed by the younger girlfriend; ostracized males teetering between self-loathing and civility as they confront their humiliation; estranged spouses mired in the debris of imploded identity... Each story traces a path that defines loss and...exposes the elemental point where healing must begin.

Dawna Robertson