Desert gothic / / Don Waters
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Waters Don <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Desert gothic / / Don Waters
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-775-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827018903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Iowa short fiction award.