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At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories

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Tess Gallagher is best known as a distinguished poet. She also collaborated on the film Short Cuts, based on the short stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. But in this luminous collection of short stories -- her second -- she establishes herself as a fiction writer of the first order. Set primarily in the Northwest, where the author was born and has lived for many years, these stories tell how people do more than cope with the hard turns and snares of their lives. We watch them take the unexpected next step as they face their dilemmas. Gallagher invents wholly original characters and renders them with lyrical intensity. As with the great short stories of Flannery O'Connor, Gallagher's prose animates the themes of love, human pain, and healing.

The red ensign --
I got a guy once --
Venison pie --
To dream of bears --
The leper --
Creatures --
She who is untouched by fire --
A box of rocks --
Coming and going --
My gun --
Mr. Woodriff's neckties --
Rain flooding your campfire --
The mother thief --
A glimpse of the Buddha --
The poetry baron --
The woman who prayed

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Release: August 23, 1999

ISBN: 0684847566

ISBN 13: 9780684847566

At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Tess Gallagher is best known as a distinguished poet. She also collaborated on the film Short Cuts, based on the short stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. But in this luminous collection of short stories -- her second -- she establishes herself as a fiction writer of the first order. Set primarily in the Northwest, where the author was born and has lived for many years, these stories tell how people do more than cope with the hard turns and snares of their lives. We watch them take the unexpected next step as they face their dilemmas. Gallagher invents wholly original characters and renders them with lyrical intensity. As with the great short stories of Flannery O'Connor, Gallagher's prose animates the themes of love, human pain, and healing.

The red ensign --
I got a guy once --
Venison pie --
To dream of bears --
The leper --
Creatures --
She who is untouched by fire --
A box of rocks --
Coming and going --
My gun --
Mr. Woodriff's neckties --
Rain flooding your campfire --
The mother thief --
A glimpse of the Buddha --
The poetry baron --
The woman who prayed

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Release: August 23, 1999

ISBN: 0684847566

ISBN 13: 9780684847566

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