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Red ant house : stories / Ann Cummins.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.U657 R4 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummins, Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southwestern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Southwestern States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2003]
- Summary:
- Denis Johnson Meets Flannery O'Connor in This Dazzling Collection of Short Stories about the collision of cultures, genders, and generations in the American Southwest. Set mainly amid Indian reservations and uranium mills, these twelve stories create a kaleidoscopic view of family, myth, love, landscape, and loss in a place where infinite skies and endless roads suggest a world of possibility. Yet dreams are deceiving, like on oasis, just beyond reach. Whether it's a young woman pushed quite literally to the edge on a desolate mountain poss, an orphaned brother and sister trying to patch together an existence one stitch at a time, a cop who suspects his kleptomaniac wife is stealing from other people -- materially and emotionally -- or a wily roadside hypnotist whose alleged power is both wonderful and strange, Ann Cummins's characters want to transcend the circumstances of their lives, to believe in the eventuality of change. Again and again, Cummins generates imagery of white-hot intensity and pushes the limits of both the human spirit and the short story form. Gritty, seductive, and always daring, this unforgettable debut collection puts forth a hounting new vision of hope and heartache in America and confirms the arrival of an important new voice.
- Contents:
- Red ant house
- Trapeze
- The shiprock fair
- Blue fly
- Where I work
- Crazy yellow
- Headhunter
- Dr. War is a voice on the phone
- The hypnotist's trailer
- Bitterwater
- Starburst
- Billy by the bay.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner original."
- ISBN:
- 0618269258
- OCLC:
- 51242212
- Online:
- Publisher description
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