Title: The way people run
Description: In The Way People Run, one of America's finest writers gives us a new collection of short stories, fiction about the deep emotional connections, and disconnections, between people and within people's inner lives. Against the backdrop of vivid settings, especially the Chesapeake Bay region and the American West, Tilghman writes with passion, generosity, and grace about the ways people confront themselves and the lives they've created.

In "The Way People Run," chosen by Robert Stone for the 1992 Best American Short Stories volume, a man goes west to find a new job and, out of the framework of the familiar, loses his hold on his family and his old life. In "Something Important," Peter Ramsey undertakes a reunion with his long-lost brother, and discovers that his wife is in love with someone else. In "Things Left Undone," chosen by Tobias Wolff to appear in the 1994 Best American Short Stories, a young couple tries to survive a tragedy.

As Andre Dubus said about In a Father's Place, Christopher Tilghman "is a spiritual writer who often looks at things the rest of us cannot see." Life's truths are at the heart of these stories by a modern American master.
Subjects: Social life and customs, 20th century, Fiction, United States, Fiction, general, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Avoidance (Psychology), Évitement (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, short stories (single author), Maryland, fiction, Montana, fiction
Places: Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.), United States
Time periods: 20th century