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PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312180381

ISBN-139780312180386

eBay Product ID (ePID)521490

Product Key Features

Book TitleAlligator Dance : Stories

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author)

Publication Year1998

GenreFiction

AuthorJanet Peery

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-036081

ReviewsA seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery., Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's dibut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order., "A seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery." -- Paul Scott Malone, The Dallas Morning News "Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's dibut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order." -- The Virginia Quartlerly Review "Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnes in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book!" -- Rosellen Brown, "A seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery."-- Paul Scott Malone, The Dallas Morning News "Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's dibut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order."-- The Virginia Quartlerly Review "Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnes in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book!"-- Rosellen Brown, Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnes in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book!, "A seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery."--Paul Scott Malone,The Dallas Morning News "Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's dibut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order."--The Virginia Quartlerly Review "Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnes in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book!"--Rosellen Brown, "A seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery." -- Paul Scott Malone, The Dallas Morning News "Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's debut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order." -- The Virginia Quarterly Review "Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnest in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book!" -- Rosellen Brown

SynopsisThe richly textured stories in this collection, which won Peery comparisons to Eudora Welty, Ellen Gilchrist, Willa Cather, and Jayne Anne Phillips, depict people trying to understand the mysteries of a place in which they have themselves and to apply that understanding to their lives. Whether the territory is cultural, sexual, or social, it always leads back to one place--the heart., With the same piercing vision that distinguishes her novel The River Beyond The World, Janet Peery unveils a stunning collection of stories. Settled mostly in the American Southwest, her characters-men and women caught between two places, literal and figurative-try to understand the mysteries that overarch or undergird their lives.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.E284A79 1998