Against the Wind
Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim
Language: English
Published by Red Hen Press, 2019
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- Title
- Against the Wind
- Author
- Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim,Tilley, Jim
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1597098353
- ISBN 13
- 9781597098359
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About the Author
Against the Wind is Jim Tilley’s debut novel. He has published three full-length collections of poetry and a short memoir, The Elegant Solution. His writing has appeared in top literary journals, including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Southern Review. In 2008 he won Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize for Poetry. Jim earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard University. During his twenty-five-year career in insurance and investment banking, he wrote several prize-winning papers on finance and investments. He has recently published original mathematics research in various academic journals. He resides in Bedford Corners, New York.
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