Stories from the country of Lost borders
By: Mary Austin ; edited and with an introduction by Marjorie Pryse.
Contributors: Pryse, Marjorie, 1948-; Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934.
Series: American women writers series
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California -- Fiction.; Natural history -- California.; Western stories.; California -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Lost borders.
Description: "In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geographically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman."
Notes: Bibliography: p. xxxix-xl.
Table of contents: title: The land of little rain; title: Lost borders.