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Desert gothic / / Don Waters



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Autore: Waters Don <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Desert gothic / / Don Waters Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.6
Soggetto topico: Short stories, American - 21st century
Soggetto geografico: Southwest, New Fiction
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: What 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.
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: Desert gothic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-775-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827018903321
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Serie: Iowa short fiction award.