Dreamers and desperadoes: contemporary short fiction of the American West
Westerns
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Short stories featuring working people in the West. "Winter of '19" tells how two sheep ranchers save their flock during a blizzard. "Do You Hear Your Mother Talking?" tells of a millworker's and a lumberjack's romance. And "Sleepwalkers" tells of… a hotel maid's adjustment to the guests' schedules. Strong language. 1993. Sweetheart / Iliana of the pleasure dreams / Heartwood / The Snowies, the Judiths / Bigfoot stole my wife - I am Bigfoot / Paraiso: an elegy / Winter of '19 / Why I am a danger to the public / Do you hear your mother talking? / Nevada dreams / Eggs -- Abscences - Cicadas -- Growing tomatoes / Sleepwalkers / Mint / The interior of North Dakota / The woman who would eat flowers / Dropping anchor / Idaho man / Slaughterhouse / Whitney and Tracie / Science meets prophecy / Cry about a nickel / Optimists / Girls / Personal silence / Nebraska / Friends and fortunes / A family resemblance / Rock garden / The flower girls / Death by browsing / I could love you (if I wanted) / Emerald City: Third & Pike / It's come to this / Sea animals / The room / Pragmatists / Migrants / Double face / Boat people / Talking to the dead / The Indian lawyer / Buried poems /