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Small Craft Warnings
Stories, Western Literature
by Kate Braverman
ISBN: 0874173213
ISBN-13: 9780874173215
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 180
Publisher's Notes
The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom been explored with as much power or insight as in these brilliant stories by award-winning novelist and poet Kate Braverman. In a world without succor, Braverman's characters grope for meaning and solutions to their dilemmas. "Our Lady of the 43 Sorrows" must meet the bizarre needs of her severely brain-damaged mother as her own career as a soap-opera actress declines. The protagonist of "Pagan Night" waits with her unnamed and unwanted infant in a-shabby zoo in Idaho while her partner buys dope and makes plans to reconstitute their failed rock band. And the precocious, awkward adolescent narrator of the title story watches as her elegant grandmother confronts the illness that will soon end the colorful life she has enjoyed so avidly. Abandonment, in these wrenching stories, comes in many forms, and freedom is elusive and sometimes fraught with pain and terror.
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Small Craft Warnings: Stories, Western Literature
Braverman, Kate
Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1998, 1998-09. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good plus copy. Ex library with minimal library markings and no card pocket. Very nice copy.---BOOKS PURCHASED BEFORE 3PM EASTERN SAME DAY. ( more information)
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