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Dreamers and desperadoes : contemporary short fiction of the American West
- Title
- Dreamers and desperadoes : contemporary short fiction of the American West / co-edited by Craig Lesley and Katheryn Stavrakis.
- Publication
- New York : Dell Publishing, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS648.W4 D733 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 532 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- The American West, capture in the voices of powerful, passionate writers, is a land of optimists, dreamers, drifters, and desperadoes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Western fiction.
- Western stories.
- Nouvelles.
- Contents
- Sweetheart / Kathleen Alcalá -- Iliana of the pleasure dreams / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- Heartwood / Rick Bass -- The snowies, the Judiths / Mary Clearman Blew -- Bigfoot stole my wife ; I am bigfoot / Ron Carlson -- Paraiso: an elegy -- Winter of '19 / Ivan Doig -- Science meets prophecy / David James Duncan -- Cry about a nickel / Percival Everett -- Optimists / Richard Ford -- Girls / Tess Gallagher -- Personal silence / Molly Gloss -- Nebraska / Ron Hansen -- Friends and fortunes / Linda Hogan -- A family resemblance / James D. Houston -- Rock garden / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- The flower girls / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Death by browsing / Karen Karbo.
- (con't) I could love you (If I wanted) / John Keeble -- Why I am a danger to the public / Barbara Kingsolver -- Do you hear your mother talking? / William Kittredge -- Nevada Dreams / David Kranes -- Eggs ; Absences : Cicadas ; Growing tomatoes / Alex Kuo -- Sleepwalkers / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Mint / Craig Lesley -- The interior of North Dakota / Barry Lopez -- The woman who would eat flowers / Colleen McElroy -- Dropping anchor / Valerie Miner -- Idaho man / John Rember -- Slaughterhouse / Greg Sarris -- Whitney and Tracie / Carolyn See -- Emeralda City: Third & Pike / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- It's come to this / Annick Smith -- Sea animals / Tom Spanbauer -- The room / Kathryn Stavrakis -- Pragmatists / Robert Stubblefield -- Migrants / Elizabeth Tallent -- Double face / Amy Tan -- Boat people / Joyce Thompson -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe -- The Indian lawyer / James Welch -- Buried poems / Terry Tempest Williams.
- ISBN
- 0440505178
- 9780440505174
- LCCN
- 93215925
- OCLC
- ocm28038305
- 28038305
- SCSB-8949552
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library