The price you pay / stories by Ellen Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Ellen, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Tex. : Southern Methodist University Press, 2000.

Summary:

In the title story, a woman on the run from her husband hitches a ride with a man running from the law. As they make their way across the Arizona desert in his beat-up Ford Falcon, what they will together become is shaped by what each chooses to hide and reveal.

In "Pretty Please," a man obsessed with a mysterious seamstress finds that he'll go to any length to have her. Capable of splitting a pencil line with a pair of scissors, she fashions him to suit her needs.

In "A Color of Sky," a Native American mother tries to make a home for her son. When she starts drug running for the Fat Man and involves her son in the enterprise, she jeopardizes the very security she longs to provide.

Winter's stories offer a unique take on the way place works on people -- what they do to run from it, what it costs to stay. This collection is, as Janet Peery writes, "a transformative work by a writer of great promise."

Contents:

The Price You Pay 1

Pretty Please 17

The Boys 25

The Planting 35

Blue-Sky Day 43

Contra Dance 55

Spring 71

Full Moon Howl 85

Spin Cycle 107

Love in the Desert 119

Dragon Box 131

Have a Prayer 145

Fox Hill 157

Call Me Ruby 173

House in the Woods 185

A Color of Sky 207.

ISBN:

0870744569

OCLC:

44669473