The richly textured stories in Janet Peery's debut collection nearly always depict people caught between two places - literal or figurative - or trying to understand the mysteries of a place in which they have found themselves and to apply that understanding to their lives. Whether the territory is cultural, sexual, or social, its bedrock is the heart. In "South Padre" an Oklahoma farmer and his wife take a trip to the Texas Gulf Coast where they encounter a test of their marriage and - each in a different way - the limits ...
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The richly textured stories in Janet Peery's debut collection nearly always depict people caught between two places - literal or figurative - or trying to understand the mysteries of a place in which they have found themselves and to apply that understanding to their lives. Whether the territory is cultural, sexual, or social, its bedrock is the heart. In "South Padre" an Oklahoma farmer and his wife take a trip to the Texas Gulf Coast where they encounter a test of their marriage and - each in a different way - the limits of their knowledge. Set in 1950s Milwaukee, "Alligator Dance" depicts a fourth grader's sexual awakening as she is attracted and repelled by a Polish boy's totemic words, images, and their mysterious meanings, and by her own confusing desires. Eager to please her lawyer father, a young girl in "The Waco Wego" accompanies him to a meeting with a murderer's mother at a truckstop where she confronts the complexities of blame, morality, knowledge, and compassion. In "Nosotros" the daughter of a Mexican maid in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, angered by her mother's subservience, is forced to examine her own relationship with the son of her mother's employer. The title story was listed as one of one hundred distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories 1992. Two of the stories received Pushcart prizes, "Nosotros" appearing in Pushcart XVI and "Whitewing" in Pushcart XVII. "What the Thunder Said" will appear in the 1993 edition of Best American Short Stories.
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. BX2-A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps and marks on the front endpaper and top outside paper edges plus some water wrinkling of the first three pages plus some very light creasing on the back at the top left corner plus some very, very light sunning on the spine. A title in the publisher's Southwest Life and Letters Series. A collection of short stories in which the author depicts people caught trying to understand the mysteries of a place in which they have found themselves and apply that understanding to their lives. 208p.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BX2-A trade paperback enscribed book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there is a gift enscription by the author on the half title page and the author's autograph on the title page. A title in the publisher's Southwest Life and Letters Series. A collection of short stories in which the author depicts people caught trying to understand the mysteries of a place in which they have found themselves and apply that understanding to their lives. 208p.
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