Dianne Warren has crafted seven exquisite stories, each of them a novella in scope. Each of the stories features a casual violation that brings home the fragility of middle-class life in this suburban world of small accidents with enormous repercussions.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Warren's third collection of stories explores the small disruptions in the lives of ordinary people living in rural America and Canada. In "Hawk's Landing," Edna Carlson's adventurous days are behind her; she now finds vicarious thrills in the escapades of the local delinquent. Her quiet existence with her elderly mother is upset by the appearance of the widow of her brother, whose death her mother refuses to acknowledge. The title piece introduces a middle-aged woman who is traveling with a horse buyer whose license has been revoked for drunk driving. Both are pensive people who have little to discuss on the car journey, but who feel connected to each other nonetheless. When a storm stops them, they have time to recount their life histories and reflect on their pasts. In "Tuxedo," a trip to the dry cleaner launches Claire into a confusing relationship that, even by the end of the story, she is unable to understand. Meanwhile, Claire's best friend and her friend's mother complain to her about their problems with their husbands. Throughout these stories runs an appreciation for minutiae, whether it involves the narrator of the title story peering at a horse in the moonlight, or Carmen, a restless teenager in "Bone Garden," crawling out from beneath a tree in a hotel and spitting dirt from her mouth. Warren (Wednesday Flower Man; Black Luck Dog) is a competent writer, and these quiet stories are enhanced by the subtlety with which their secrets and surprises are revealed.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Edna Carlberg's sister-in-law, the widow of Clayton Carlberg, arrived from Canada on a hot day in the first part of August. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sixteen steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Kershaw, Alliance Church, Big Bear, Fort Qu'Appelle, Bone Garden, Barry Moss, Doc Bar, Old Stony, South Dakota, Zoe Klumpp New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Edna Carlberg's sister-in-law, the widow of Clayton Carlberg, arrived from Canada on a hot day in the first part of August. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sixteen steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Kershaw, Alliance Church, Big Bear, Fort Qu'Appelle, Bone Garden, Barry Moss, Doc Bar, Old Stony, South Dakota, Zoe Klumpp New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 5
books:
4
books
cite this book:
- Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston in Back Matter
- Bad Luck Dog by Dianne Warren in Back Matter
- Small Accidents by Andrew Gray in Back Matter
- A Sack of Teeth by Grant Buday in Back Matter
- Serpent in the Night Sky by Dianne Warren in Back Matter
- Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston in Back Matter
- Daughters Are Forever by Lee Maracle in Back Matter
- Some Girls Do by Teresa McWhirter in Back Matter
- Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present (Trade Books based in Scholarship) by Heather Hodgson on page 233
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
