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The saints of rattlesnake mountain / Don Waters.
LIBRA PS3623.A8688 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waters, Don, 1974- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western stories--21st century.
- Western stories.
- Short stories, American--21st century.
- Short stories, American.
- Southwestern States--Fiction.
- Southwestern States.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Master storyteller Don Waters returns to the desert in his third book set in the American Southwest. With the gothic sensibility of Flannery O'Connor and emotional delicacy of Raymond Carver, these nine contemporary stories deftly explore the lives of characters losing or clinging to a fleeting faith and struggling to find something meaningful to believe in beneath overpowering desert skies. Soldiers, seekers, priests, prisoners, and surfers pursue their fate amid bizarre, sometimes overwhelming circumstances. In "La Luz de Jesús," a gutless Los Angeles screenwriter, a believer in nothing but the god of Hollywood, must reorient after he encounters a group of penitents in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The decorated soldier in "Española" faces more chaos back home than he did during his tour in Iraq. And "The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain" pairs a "trustee" prison inmate and a wild mustang horse, both wards of the state of Nevada, as they fumble toward a spiritual truth. These stories capture the spirit of a region and its people. Once again Waters assembles an unconventional cast of characters, capturing their foibles and imperfections, and always rendering them with compassion as these modern-day martyrs and spiritually haunted survivors strive for some kind of redemption. Ingenious, sometimes forbidding, often absurd, and altogether original, The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain is a stirring tribute to the lives, loves, and hopes of the faithful and the dispossessed.
- Contents:
- Saints of rattlesnake mountain
- Last rites
- Espanola
- La luz de Jesus
- Deborah
- Two kinds of temples
- Day of the dead
- Full of days
- Todos santos.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Waters, Don, 1974- Saints of rattlesnake mountain.
- ISBN:
- 9781943859290
- 1943859299
- OCLC:
- 965154160
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