# The Way People Run

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- Authors: [Christopher Tilghman](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-tilghman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-05-03

## Description

This superb new collection of stories confirms Tilghman's genius in that edgy territory of family, marriage breakdown, widowhood, parents, children, inheritance and escape, all against a backdrop of richly evoked landscapes from Virginia to Montana. Like Richard Ford, Tilghman unpeals the corner of the male psyche to expose, with empathy and yet a touch of ironic distance, the vulnerabilities which make men run, or lie - or even come back for good. Here are ordinary people - men, for the most part - running from their loves, looking for new hope in a 'bushel of crabs', a cattle ranch, a one-night stand or a whisky glass. But here, too, in these sharply focused and beautifully judged stories are moments of redemption, moments when they stop running and find love, or just a glimmer of self-knowledge.

## Editions

### The Way People Run

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-318-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2001-05-03
- Language: en_GB