ISBN: 0-88739-267-9
166 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 7/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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So Trust Me
Bill Pieper
"The Willamette Kid" portrays a harrowing year in the life of John McDonough, a former championship fencer who believes that lying to everyone close to him is the only way to avoid being forced to leave San Francisco and join the family business. "Winnemucca Rose" describes the sex- and dope-laden Idaho fishing trip of Brian and Susan McAlpin, as well as the mind games they play on two friends, Phil and Marc. "Married Sex" tells of Steve Parker and Carrie Henson, whose differing reasons for sharing an overnight trip to Mendocino lead to absurd and painful consequences. In "Friends Like That," Roy and Cora spend a two-week summer vacation in Nevada City house-sitting for the inexplicably fastidious Spence, a man who has gone to great lengths to cover up his past.
Review: "Bill Pieper writes with honesty and clarity, the latter a rare quality when taking on the mostly losing battle of figuring out what happens between men and women when they attempt to communicate."
-Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart and Night People
"These stories are about time and place and will make us remember where we were and who we loved over the past forty years. They remind us how easy it is to stumble over hazards of the human heart."
-Peter Collier, co-author of The Kennedys, The Fords, The Rockefellers, and Destructive Generation
Bio: BILL PIEPER claims to be a writer, a resident of Sacramento, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. He denies having been a bureaucrat, a consultant, a lawyer, or a literature professor, and says he has no control over the fact that the people he writes about don't tell the truth.
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