In Hearing of the Ocean

About the Book

Lloyd is back in touch with Barbara after her long silence and summer marriage to one of her professors. “You have no responsibility under the circumstances,” she tells Lloyd, referring to her baby due late in the fall. “I wish you’d leave the whole thing alone.” Other concerns also tug at Lloyd. A war is on and he expects to go. An ambitious pastime becomes the most compelling thing he does. And there are new girls, including one who knows how to liven up a funeral. Champ, chump, weirdo, square, Lloyd navigates with mixed success through the death and birth of love.

About the Author

Alan Fisher lives in Baltimore. His wife appears on the cover of this book, so Alan wants to dispel the implication that she is the model for any of the characters. Not so. It’s just that Alan is a sentimentalist and thinks the photo, evocative for him, represents the spirit of youth and love at the center of the story. Apart from fiction, Alan has also written six guidebooks for hiking and bicycling near major cities. Readers of In Hearing of the Ocean will see that he has drawn on this background to give his main character a pleasant way to ignore what he should be doing. There the similarity ends.