Late in the standoff : stories and a novella / Tracy Daugherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daugherty, Tracy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Texas.

New Mexico.

New Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.

Summary:

In Late in the Standoff, the stories ask, What are the limits of intimacy? How well can we really know each other? What happens when the lines between deception and honesty become blurred? The standoffs in Tracy Daugherty's third collection vividly demonstrate that private friction and community health are inextricably intertwined.

In "The Standoff," an old political warrior and his asthmatic grandson rediscover their affection for each other along with a vestige of their lost idealism on a trip to a small Oklahoma community where the old man has been asked to settle an "Indian dispute." In "Cotton Flat Road," estranged siblings, now grown, are able to reach a tentative rapprochement when the sister reveals to her brother her secret life across the tracks in the Texas oil town where they grew up. And in "Anna Lia," the novella that concludes the collection, Daugherty limns Houston's multiple layers-from skyscrapers to bayous, spotlighting its sexual, cultural, and economic mores-in a narrative about the aftermath of the title character's untimely death.

Contents:

Lamplighter

Power lines

The standoff

Cotton Flat Road

City codes

Anna Lia.

ISBN:

0870744984

OCLC:

58604762