A pause in the desert by
By: Oliver La Farge ; new foreword by Marc Simmons and an appreciation by John Pen La Farge.
Series: Southwest heritage series
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780865346772
Description: Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican brush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death of a marriage in New Mexico. The variety of stories in this wide-ranging collection are sure to fit the taste and mood and any reader interested in the human condition through the clear grace of La Farge's timeless writing -- Back cover.
Notes: "Facsimile of 1957 Edition."

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1957.