Title
Contents
Crows -- The blind horse -- Shiny objects -- Where the water is wide -- Looking for rain -- The bath -- The stone angel -- Unknown feathers.
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1982
Series
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Judge
Raymond Carver
Award Date
1982
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Place
Iowa City
Total Pages
137
ISBN
9780877451167
Abstract
This prize-winning collection of eight plainspoken stories is set in the raw, elemental sheep country of central and west Texas. Writing from her early absorption into the folk reality of Mexican Americans and southern whites, Dianne Benedict draws indelible people against a canvas alternately chilling and deceptively neutral. With great force and clarity, she deals with the winners and the losers, with the sinister and the comic, with grinding desolation and abrupt illuminations of innocence and grace. These stories reveal the intense inner life and revelation possible when people live so close to the bone of circumstance that ordinary material values fall away--Front flap.
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Rights
Copyright © 1982 by Dianne Benedict. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
URL
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