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August heat : short stories / by Richard Dokey ; illustrations by Inara Cedrins.
- Title
- August heat : short stories / by Richard Dokey ; illustrations by Inara Cedrins.
- Author
- Dokey, Richard.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Story Press, 1982.
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- Description
- 152 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In his first story collection, Dokey presents careful details evoking the dry valley of central California with the Sierras looming in the distance, holding out a promise of escape and adventure to his landlocked characters -- ranch hands, laborers, teachers, children, the elderly, all dreamers and isolates, who are trapped in loneliness and inarticulateness and long for escape into the mountains or into private fantasies. Dokey's themes are the universals: the cycles of birth and death, physical and spiritual isolation, the intricacies of human relations and the disappointments of old age.
- Subject
- Short stories
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Nouvelles.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Birth -- Home -- The dead man -- August heat -- Port of call -- Sanchez -- Teacher -- The old maid -- The autumn of Henry Simpson -- Death valley.
- ISBN
- 093170409X
- 0931704081 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^81023346^
- OCLC
- 8170495
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library