Author: Susan Lowell
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly "parties of interest" to the government tell their stories. A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an act of violence out of proportion to its cause. The beginning of the end of a man's lifelong search for coherence is sparked by a Montana grizzly. A man blinded in the war in Vietnam wrestles with the implications of his actions as a soldier - and with innocence, both lost and regained.
Author: Susan Lowell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805064834
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A Southwestern version of "Little Red Riding Hood" in which Little Red rides her pony Buck to Grandma's ranch with a jar of cactus jelly in the saddlbag.
Author: Kevin S. Hile
Publisher: Something about the Author
ISBN: 9780810322912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.
Author: Susan Lowell
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 168003202X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, Susan Lowell’s Two Desperados is a collection of southwest-flavored stories that feature a blacksmith, several smugglers, a mule, a jaguar, a runaway groom, a murderess, a witch, a basket weaver, a Gremlin, three cowboys, and a ghost. Settings range from a grand university library to a construction site, from an apocalyptic dream world to the coyote-haunted banks of the Rio Grande. A novella called “Captain Death” traces a journalist’s odyssey along the U.S.-Mexico border. Another novella, “Two Desperados,” follows a prodigal daughter’s return to her eccentric Arizona home. And although they grapple with love and death, many members of this motley gang still manage to find sparkles in the darkness and a few crazy moments of grace. These eighteen stories play a few games with traditional short story form, but by and large they remain in the realism camp—yet it is realism tweaked or enlivened with an occasional sprinkle of magic or a small electric zap. In length they range from a few words to many pages, from the brief text of a bumper sticker to a full-scale novella. In the words of Apuleius, author of The Golden Ass: “Reader! Pay attention! You’re going to enjoy yourself!”
Author: Jesse Lynch Williams
Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Author: Tony Ardizzone
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"The interwoven stories in Larabi's Ox set in contemporary Morocco, tell of three American travelers--Sarah Rosen, Peter Corvino, and Henry Goodson--who are each visiting Morocco for the first time. Sarah is running away from a failed relationship; Peter is escaping from his own mediocrity; Henry is running toward his impending death from cancer"--Back cover.
Author: Timothy R. Mahoney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803220464
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of architecture, agriculture, and women, this volume implements some of the most innovative and intriguing approaches to the history and value of regionalism as a category for investigation in the humanities. In the volume’s inaugural essay, Annie Proulx discusses landscapes in American fiction, comments on how she constructs characters, and interprets current literary trends. Edward Watts offers a theory of region that argues for comparisons of the United States to other former colonies of Great Britain, including New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Whether considering a writer's connection to region or the idea of place in exploring what is meant by regionalism, these essays uncover an enduring and evolving concept. Although the approaches and disciplines vary, all are framed within the fundamental premise of the humanities: the search to understand what it means to be human.
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Author: Erica Bauermeister
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140175905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Often poorly represented in buyers' guides, women's books are now covered in this articulate and intentionally eclectic reader's guide. Covering a wealth of remarkable novels, narratives, biographies, and more, this resource for general readers offers more than 500 entries--capturing the flavor of each book. Includes seven cross-referenced indexes.
Author: Alexander Blackburn
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers' Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfather's (or Hollywood's) West. These are rodeos and forest fires, lonely farmhouses, and isolated lives in wide open spaces, but there are also stories of the urban homeless, of teenage girls in the club and drug scene of present-day Austin, of wetbacks, Vietnamese immigrants, literate writers of advertising commercials living in high-rise flats. There are action stories and stories of local color, but there are also Jamesian stories, allusive stories, sophisticated, even brittle stories that, mutatis mutandis, might come from the pages of the New Yorker, though the mutation is refreshing and liberating. Robert Olan Butler's "Love" is hilarious; Brett Lott's "I Owned Vermont" brief, oblique, and penetrating; Charles Baxter's "The Eleventh Floor" urbane and moving, Lesley Poling Kemper's "Edith's Own" simultaneously awkward and powerful. The anthology has both variety and cohesiveness and its high quality testifies to the almost inexplicable phenomenon of the flourishing of the short story in a market with few outlets. Writers' Forum is to be congratulated for affording an opportunity for excellent writing to see the light of day.
