| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Spring Flood; The Right Hand; The Shooters; Old Schwier; Anniversary; The Metal Sky; The Quick and the Dead; The Witch; The Snake; About the Author |
| Summary |
A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: "There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful." It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fill these haunting tales. Pulp-fiction grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of classic folklore, these stories take place in a world of shadowy figures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinflints, by men and women mercilessly unforgiving of one another's trespasses, and in nights prowled by w |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Farm life -- Fiction
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Short stories, American -- West (U.S.)
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FICTION -- General.
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Farm life
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Short stories, American
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| SUBJECT |
Nebraska -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Nebraska
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schaffert, Timothy.
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| ISBN |
9780803254077 |
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0803254075 |
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0803254083 |
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9780803254084 |
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