Deer walking upside down
Subtitle: stories
By: by Jerry McGahan
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Schaffner Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tucson, Az
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781936182763
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: In this debut short story collection from Jerry McGahan, nature in all its fascinating, perplexing, and maddening varieties intercedes with the complex yearnings, courtings, departings, and returnings of the human characters who inhabit the fringes of wilderness in contemporary Montana. Comprised of short fiction selected over a 20-year period, "The Deer Walking Upside Down" invites readers into a world where hard work and an abiding respect for all things wild inform the lives of this rural paradise, yet not without a price. As men and women reconcile passion and inclination, love and the wreckage of aging, there is always work to be done: fences to be repaired, hives to be tended to, livestock to be fed, and loves to be fostered. Steeped in the tradition of Jim Harrison and Tom McGuane, this collection marks the arrival of a distinct voice in the contemporary Western literary landscape."--
Table of contents: title: Benediction; title: Rainy Day Ears; title: Arlene in Five; title: The Deer Walking Upside Down; title: Reclamations; title: All Fall Down; title: The Carolina Wren; title: Four Kinds of Forgetting; title: Different People's Bees; title: Howard's End; title: The Hawk at Armageddon; title: Asleep in a Sturgeon.