All the Voices Cry (eBook)

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Winner of the QWF First Book PrizeAn academics wife, struggling to keep up with her husbands quest to find a long-dead authors Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlains astrolabe, and a brush with mortalityand finds at least the latter atDanseuses 7 Jours. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions.InAll the Voices Cry, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersens characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.Praise forAll the Voices CryFinely crafted and pared down to their bare essentials These are stories that work on multiple levels, and continue to divulge their secrets after several rereadings.Quill & QuireAmong the books pleasures are bursts of descriptive panache.Globe and MailAll the Voices Cryhas to be counted one of the most assured short story debuts in recent years.goodreports.netAlice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.David Bezmozgis, author ofThe Free WorldAlice PetersensAll the Voices Cryis masterful and potentincredibly satisfying for a reader.Kathleen Winter, author ofAnnabelThe story is balanced between this sense of nostalgia and acceptance, and sustained by the narrators charming voice and her gift for physical description.David Bezmozgis, on After SummerThese stories are lively, immediate the metaphorical eye and the ear for voice are strong here.David Adams Richards Prize, Winners Citation (2009)All the Voices Cry announces itself early on as something of a giftThe authorial voice, far from being elusive, is sharply, poetically present.Landfall