Background
Johnson, Greg was born on July 13, 1953 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Raymond F. and Jo Ann Johnson.
(Trust and betrayal, coercion and compliance, cruel truth ...)
Trust and betrayal, coercion and compliance, cruel truth and 'friendly deceit'--these are among the themes in this latest collection of stories by prizewinning author Greg Johnson. A young man knows his father really didn't die in Vietnam but isn't sure he's ready for his mother to tell him the truth. An emotionally distraught wife copes with her husband's infidelity. Watching a disturbing Gene Tierney film on the 'Million Dollar Movie, ' a ten-year-old boy learns that there are more dangerous fevers than the one keeping him home from school. And as her boyfriend loads the stolen silver on his pickup truck, a female con artist teaches a childless woman a bitter lesson about motherhood. Many of Johnson's characters have become as adept at deceiving themselves as they are at tricking others. Some are well-meaning; others seem so at first. All have experienced the emotional extremes that strain human relationships to the breaking point. And while some of these stories probe the darker areas of the psyche, others portray the larger deceits of contemporary America as a whole, illuminating such issues as homelessness and AIDS. With irony, wit, compassion, and insight, Greg Johnson explores the lives of people on the verge of understanding that they will never really know each other.
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"Greg Johnson writes with uncommon clarity and beauty about the many faces of love and the price of living honestly and flat out," wrote Anne Rivers Siddons of Johnson's debut novel, Pagan Babies. In his new novel, he delves even more deeply into the complex and irrevocable ties of family. Abby Sandler has not spoken to her brother, Thom, in four years, the result of a family explosion that has over time evolved into a dull resentment and a futile waiting for someone else to make the first move. His unexpected phone call wrenches her away from her staid life as a teacher in Philadelphia and unofficial companion to their possessive widowed mother and sends her back to Atlanta, where they both grew up and Thom still lives. Over the ensuing holiday season, as Thom and Abby tentatively move toward reconciliation, both are also moving toward elusive new lives: Thom, newly diagnosed HIV-positive, is still grappling with the loss of his lover Roy; Abby, her earlier sense of self reawakened, is unexpectedly plunged into a passionate love affair. But it is with Thom's eclectic group of friends that Abby finds herself most involved, and as this often chaotic group swirls around them, both Thom and Abby confront the often ephemeral, impossible-to-pin-down nature of human connection, both fragile and strong as steel, that ultimately draws them toward unexpected confrontations and a staggering realization of the healing power of love. Greg Johnson is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. He is the author of Pagan Babies, I Am Dangerous, Aid and Comfort, A Friendly Deceit, and Distant Friends. His short fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, The Southern Humanities Review, and Best American Short Stories. He was named Georgia Author of the Year in 1991 and 1997 and was a winner in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project.
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(A collection of 11 stories, set for the most part in Geor...)
A collection of 11 stories, set for the most part in Georgia. They present a variety of characters in the New South, all confronting painful but potentially redemptive turning points in their lives.
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(Soulmates at first sight, Janice Rungren and Clifford Ban...)
Soulmates at first sight, Janice Rungren and Clifford Bannon enjoy a stormy relationship that spans three decades, from the 1960s and the optimism of the Kennedy administration to the 1980s with its specter of AIDS. 12,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.
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Johnson reveals little-known facts about Oates's personal and family history and debunks many of the myths that have arisen about this brilliant, enigmatic woman. Johnson takes readers from Oates's impoverished childhood in upstate New York and the birth of her autistic sister through Oates's studies at Syracuse University, where her talent was immediately recognized, to the full breadth of her astonishingly productive career. His astute examination of Oates's novels, short stories, and plays demonstrates how her art has been informed by her life.
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Johnson, Greg was born on July 13, 1953 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Raymond F. and Jo Ann Johnson.
Bachelor, Southern Methodist University, 1973. Master of Arts, Southern Methodist University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University, 1980.
Assistant professor English Emory University, Atlanta, 1977-1980, 85-86, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981. Associate professor English University Mississippi, Oxford, 1988-1989, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Georgia, 1989-1994, professor English, since 1994.
(Soulmates at first sight, Janice Rungren and Clifford Ban...)
( "Greg Johnson writes with uncommon clarity and beauty a...)
(Trust and betrayal, coercion and compliance, cruel truth ...)
(Johnson reveals little-known facts about Oates's personal...)
(A collection of 11 stories, set for the most part in Geor...)