The price you pay
Subtitle: stories
By: by Ellen Winter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dallas, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the title story, a woman on the run from her husband hitches a ride with a man running from the law. As they make their way across the Arizona desert in his beat-up Ford Falcon, what they will together become is shaped by what each chooses to hide and reveal." "In "Pretty Please," a man obsessed with a mysterious seamstress finds that he'll go to any length to have her. Capable of splitting a pencil line with a pair of scissors, she fashions him to suit her needs.".

"In "A Color of Sky," a Native American mother tries to make a home for her son. When she starts drug running for the Fat Man and involves her son in the enterprise, she jeopardizes the very security she longs to provide."--BOOK JACKET.