Nothing Can Make Me Do This - Softcover

Huddle, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936797119 ISBN 13: 9781936797110

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2011

Synopsis

Can we ever truly know another person, however well loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess many-layered inner lives that they reveal to no one else. David Huddle's tenth work of fiction enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others, leaping back and forth across fifty years and intersecting the vantage points in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets. Julia Alvarez says, "Huddle takes us into the intimate heart of a family, the desires that we keep from each other and often from ourselves. He has the courage and skill to . . . bring to light our loneliness and our longing." Howard Frank Mosher says, "Huddle shows us how love, in all its wondrous forms, from lasting friendship to the most intensely passionate sexuality, defines our common humanity."

About this title

About the Author

Currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University in Virginia, David Huddle taught for thirty-eight years at the University of Vermont and continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English. He has published seventeen books of fiction, poetry, and essays. His novel The Story of a Million Years (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) was named a Distinguished Book of the Year by Esquire and a best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In 2012, Louisiana State University Press will publish his seventh poetry collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936797119
• ISBN 13: 9781936797110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344