Low tide in the desert
Subtitle: Nevada stories
By: David Kranes.
Series: Western literature series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Description: The eleven short stories in Low Tide in the Desert celebrate a master storyteller's longtime fascination with Nevada, from the deliberately hallucinogenic urban distractions of Reno and Las Vegas to disturbing legends born in Jackpot and Battle Mountain. Some of Kranes's characters we want to know; others we would go out of our way to avoid. But he treats his vivid cross-section of humanity with dignity and even a tenderness completely without sentimentality.

Some win, some lose, some are transformed, but, quintessential Nevadans, they all hope.
Table of contents: title: Nevada dreams; title: The Black Friar of Fremont Street; title: Slot Queen; title: The Phantom Mercury of Nevada; title: The last Las Vegas story; title: Dealer; title: Life on the Moon; title: Who I am is; title: Eagle; title: The whorehouse picnic; title: Salvage.