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200 10$aDesert gothic$b[electronic resource] /$fDon Waters
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (167 p.)
225 1 $aThe Iowa short fiction award
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-58729-624-1 
327   $aWhat to do with the dead -- Sheets -- Mr. Epstein and the dealer -- Dan Buck -- Mineral and steel -- Blood management -- Holiday at the Shamrock -- The bulls at San Luis -- Little sins -- Mormons in heat.
330   $aThis powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature.      Set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops, and the "poverty motels that encircled downtown's casino corridor," Waters's ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a "lush underground island," and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless d
410  0$aIowa short fiction award.
606   $aShort stories, American$y21st century
607   $aSouthwest, New$vFiction
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aShort stories, American
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700   $aWaters$b Don$f1974-$0898396
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