Description
They Whisper follows Ira Holloway, a married father and Vietnam veteran approaching middle age, as he confronts the powerful hold that sexuality has had over his life. An ordinary life as the son of a steelworker and a public relations man provides the backdrop for a much more intimate journey through the women he has loved, and continues to love.
As Ira revisits moments of intimacy, he sometimes speaks in the voices of the women themselves, weaving their inner perspectives into his own. The result is an intensely sensual and psychologically intimate novel that explores desire, memory, love and the complicated inner life of human sexuality without reducing it to theories or easy explanations.
