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A new collection of stories set in the West from one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers (NPR)

Percival Everett''s long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004''s Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog.
For the plainspoken men and women of these storiesfathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarianssmall events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals his uncanny resemblance to an act

Half An Inch Of Water

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    Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
    Publication Date: 1/15/2015
    ISBN13: 9781555977191, 978-1555977191
    ISBN10: 1555977197

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    A new collection of stories set in the West from one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers (NPR)

    Percival Everett''s long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004''s Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog.
    For the plainspoken men and women of these storiesfathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarianssmall events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals his uncanny resemblance to an act

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