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Billy Joe Callahan leaves rural Florida at nineteen, certain of one thing: he is going to become somebody else. A baseball scholarship gets him to Iowa. An injury takes it away. What's left is a gift for reading rooms, reading people, and becoming exactly whoever the next room requires.
Over five decades and across a country, he becomes Will, then Steven, then - after the FBI, after the money, after the wife and children he can't take with him - Thomas Burton, a man built entirely from paperwork and discipline. Each version is more convincing than the last. Each one costs someone something. And at the center of every reinvention is the same unanswered question: whether a man who has been so many people can ever simply be one of them, for good, with the people who loved him along the way.
All His Names is a sweeping, intimate novel about ambition, identity, and the particular loneliness of a man who mistook motion for progress - and what it costs, decades later, to finally sit still.
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About the Author
Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.
Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.
He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.
These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Billy Joe Callahan leaves rural Florida at nineteen, certain of one thing: he is going to become somebody else. A baseball scholarship gets him to Iowa. An injury takes it away. What's left is a gift for reading rooms, reading people, and becoming exactly whoever the next room requires. Over five decades and across a country, he becomes Will, then Steven, then - after the FBI, after the money, after the wife and children he can't take with him - Thomas Burton, a man built entirely from paperwork and discipline. Each version is more convincing than the last. Each one costs someone something. And at the center of every reinvention is the same unanswered question: whether a man who has been so many people can ever simply be one of them, for good, with the people who loved him along the way. All His Names is a sweeping, intimate novel about ambition, identity, and the particular loneliness of a man who mistook motion for progress - and what it costs, decades later, to finally sit still. Seller Inventory # 9798235465145
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