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Dancing Naked Hardcover - 1999

by Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner


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Terry Walker is an even-tempered, successful mathematics professor, comfortable with his world -- the order and predictability of it. He likes the kind of life one lives in a quiet Salt Lake City subdivision. At his children's births, he masks his terror with numbers -- his wife's contractions and dilations, blood pressure, heart rate. At funerals he absorbs his grief by calculating the cubic feet of earth the coffin and vault will displace.

But control is illusive, a fact his fifteen-year-old son, Blake, never lets him forget. A sensitive boy, Blake has refused to eat meat since the time he could walk. Fearing he will hurt his friends' feelings, Blake withdraws from a spelling bee that he could easily win. More importantly, however, Blake harbors a secret that he keeps from Terry.

Driving this important first novel are issues and characters Thomas Mann himself would have found compelling. Terry Walker's inability to accept what he knows and does not know about his child, what he possibly could never accept, exacts a high price. At the threshold of insanity, the father wages war against a powerful chaos. Van Wagoner takes his readers beyond a simple foretelling to beneath the story's skin, to a place familiar and irresistible.

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  • Title Dancing Naked
  • Author Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signature Books, Salt Lake City
  • Date 1999-07
  • ISBN 9781560851301 / 1560851309
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 5.87 x 1.26 in (21.18 x 14.91 x 3.20 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99016680
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner (shown here with wife Cheri) is the recipient of Best Short Fiction awards from Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Sunstone, and Weber Studies, and has been published in The Best of Writers at Work, In Our Lovely Deseret, and other anthologies. Dancing Naked received the highest literary awards possible from the Utah Arts Council (Publication Prize) and the Utah affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book (Utah Book Award).
Rob has also been a Resident Artist with the Utah and Wyoming Arts in Education programs, and a Writers at Work faculty member. He was Outstanding Graduate in English and psychology at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah). He and his wife are Utah natives but now live in Washington state. They say they are the proud parents of two sons, one rottweiler, and a big orange lizard."
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