Alone in a Dark Wood

by Paul Enns Wiebe

Overview

A defrocked New England minister attends a San Francisco convention learning how to sell life insurance to seminarians. He accidentally encounters an old friend from seminary days who has been reduced to selling trinkets. On three consecutive days, the two have discussions in which they progressively reveal their most personal secrets to one another.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971859999
Publisher:	Komos Books
Publication date:	10/26/2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Paul Enns Wiebe grew up in the Idaho outback. Early on he found that the life of irrigating spuds, digging ditches, driving trucks, repairing fences, chasing mad steers across the open range, and castrating the occasional boar had lost its fascination.

This discovery led him to the halls of higher education. Bethel College (Kansas) granted him a BA; the University of Chicago sent him away to teach at Wichita State University and eventually presented him with a PhD. At WSU he taught comparative religion and performed the other tasks of his chosen profession—translating and writing books on the theory of religion, composing footnotes for journal articles, and arriving late at the meetings of those committees he could recall having been assigned to.

But his mastery of the academic proprieties was never more than tenuous. Thus it came as no surprise to his colleagues when he resigned his tenured position and, in an attempt to recapture a vanishing sanity, took to
writing novels. Besides Alone in a Dark Wood, these include Crazy Were We in the Head, Just Another Dead White Male, The Church of the Comic Spirit, Pope Dun the Incredible, Dancing Over the Rays of Light, and Sacred Books & Sky Hooks.

Wiebe now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Elly.