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Unheard Music: Stories

A writer of telling, minute detail with global vision, Peter Meinke reveals the intricacy of human relationships, the importance of individualism, and the power of place and culture in this new collection of stories. Masterfully-crafted dialogue, slight shifts in point-of-view, descriptive precision and imagination, and dramatic tension drive each story deeply into the human psyche. The settings range from old England to contemporary Paris and Warsaw, and across the United States. The featured characters—whether on tennis courts, in restaurants, or in their own beloved homes—always make surprising choices as they cope with love, lust, ambition, regret, youth, and old age.

Peter Meinke is the former director of the writing workshop at Eckerd College. His poetry has appeared in The Georgia Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. He is the author of The Contracted World, one of seven books he has published in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series, and The Piano Tuner, which received the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Southern Review Award. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.