Silent Retreats by Philip F. Deaver PAPERBACK 9780820330662

Silent RetreatsStories\nAuthor(s): Philip F. Deaver\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820330662, 978-0820330662\nSynopsis\nCaught in the muddle of modern life, eyes gazing at the middle distance, the characters in Silent Retreats search, down roads paved by custom and dotted by the absurd, for escape, refuge, or, at least, merciful diversion.\n\nMany of the men in Philip Deaver's stories, having drifted out of their native Illinois to the far corners, find comfort from empty jobs and blank relationships in healing, often hilarious, seductions. In \""Why I Shacked Up With Martha\"" a distracted DC executive pierces the gray blur of his glass box on Dupont Circle with illicit, painfully superficial notes passed to his beautiful, liberated coworker. In \""Marguerite Howe,\"" a businessman from Texas at a cocktail party in New Haven accosts his hostess, blindly convinced that she is the woman of his c.