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Waltzing the cat
- Title
- Waltzing the cat / Pam Houston.
- Author
- Houston, Pam.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.O8725 W3 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 288 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In eleven linked fictions featuring a peripatetic photographer named Lucy O'Rourke, Houston serves up once more her charismatic blend of relationships and adventure.
- This is the story of one woman's struggle for balance in a world that keeps pitching and rolling under her feet. Dislocated geographically and spiritually, Lucy is prone to the wrong decisions at all the critical times; what's more, natural disasters just seem to find her: an accident on a rafting trip in Cataract Canyon, a grand cayman attack in the Amazon, a hurricane in the Gulf Stream - not to mention a few natural disasters in the form of men.
- A surprise encounter with Carlos Castaneda convinces her that she isn't living the right life, and his cryptic message sends her back to her beloved Rocky Mountains. There, on a ranch, she takes comfort in animals, the jagged landscape of Colorado, and the sage advice of women friends; she even gives a man a try. Most important, for the first time she reconnects with parts of herself she didn't remember losing.
- Contents
- The Best Girlfriend You Never Had -- Cataract -- Waltzing the Cat -- Three Lessons in Amazonian Biology -- The Moon Is a Woman's First Husband -- Moving from One Body of Water to Another -- Like Goodness Under Your Feet -- Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast -- The Kind of People You Trust with Your Life -- The Whole Weight of Me.
- ISBN
- 039302749X
- LCCN
- 98010562
- OCLC
- 38199928
- ocm38199928
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries