This collection of stories of rural American life captures the subtle collisions between the banal and the extraordinary, and the anarchic and the conventional

The Lover of Horses

Literature & Fiction

Gallagher, Tess

United States

Harper&Row

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, Publishers

The first collection of stories by poet Tess Gallagher touches secret places of the heart in ordinary lives. The interest and poignancy of her fiction came from watching seemingly simple grow complex and significant before our eyes, their conventional ways pitted against their anarchic hearts.

The Lover of Horses And Other Stories: The Lover of Horses; King Death; Recourse; Turpentine; at Mercy; a Pair of Glasses; the Woman Who Saved Jesse ... Company the Wimp; Desperate Measures; Girls

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton

Sixteen stories filled with characters who run the gamut from slow sizzle to high sass are brought to life in an anthology of short fiction that captures them struggling to cope with love and loss, pain and healing. 15,000 first printing.

At the Owl Woman Saloon

Scribner

Tess Gallagher is best known as a distinguished poet. She also collaborated on the film Short Cuts, based on the short stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. But in this luminous collection of short stories -- her second -- she establishes herself as a fiction writer of the first order.
Set primarily in the Northwest, where the author was born and has lived for many years, these stories tell how people do more than cope with the hard turns and snares of their lives. We watch them take the unexpected next step as they face their dilemmas. Gallagher invents wholly original characters and renders them with lyrical intensity. As with the great short stories of Flannery O'Connor, Gallagher's prose animates the themes of love, human pain, and healing.

At the Owl Woman Saloon: Stories

Literary

Scribner Paper Fiction

Ireland is known throughout the world for its rich and vibrant storytelling. Josie Gray is a proud inheritor of this tradition, a yarn-spinner whose evocative and authentic stories are steeped in the rural west of Ireland community to which he belongs. Beautifully crafted, subtly paced, and richly textured, Gray's stories vividly and affectionately bring to life a disparate cast of characters and recreate the fabric of their everyday lives. Disputes, laughter, courting, death, drink and general all-round skulduggery are the order of the day as Gray skilfully weaves together myth and fact, truth and near-truth. Captivated by these tales, acclaimed poet Tess Gallagher worked with Gray to give his oral stories written form. The result is a stunning collection that preserves the intimacy, melody and rhythm of Gray's voice.

Barnacle Soup and Other Stories from the West of Ireland

Gray, Joise

Gray, Josie

Genre Fiction

Blackstaff Press

Dostoevsky: A Screenplay&King Dog a Screenplay (Capra Back-To-Back Series)

CARVER, RAYMOND

LeGuin, Ursula. K.

Humor & Entertainment

Capra Press

Portable Kisses: Love Poems

Poetry

Poems examine love, the relationship between men and women, and the influence of emotion on everyday life

Portable Kisses (expanded)

Dr Patrick d Carey

Instructions to the Double: Poems (Classic Contemporary)

Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

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