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" Desert gothic / "
Don Waters.
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BL
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967627
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b721997
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| Main Entry
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Waters, Don,1974-
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Desert gothic /\ Don Waters.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2007.
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The Iowa short fiction award
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1 online resource (152 pages)
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| ISBN
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1587297752
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: 9781587297755
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1587296241
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9781587296246
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| Contents
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What to do with the dead -- Sheets -- Mr. Epstein and the dealer -- Dan Buck -- Mineral and steel -- Blood management -- Holiday at the Shamrock -- The bulls at San Luis -- Little sins -- Mormons in heat.
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| Abstract
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This powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature. Set in bars, mortuaries, nursing homes, truck stops, and the "poverty motels that encircled downtown's casino corridor," Waters's ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a "lush underground island," and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless d.
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Short stories.
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FICTION-- General.
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Short stories.
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813.6
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PS3623.A8688D47 2007eb
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