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Product Identifiers
PublisherGraywolf Press
ISBN-101555977197
ISBN-139781555977191
eBay Product ID (ePID)208587485
Product Key Features
Book TitleHalf an Inch of Water : Stories
Number of Pages88 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, Westerns
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorPercival Everett
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-939973
Reviews"[A] stark, shattering novel . . . Deeply moving." -- The Wall Street Journal on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell "Percival Everett numbers among his very best." -- Lydia Millet, Los Angeles Times on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell "Funny, insightful, and unpredictable . . . Everett is a master of his trade." -- Time Out Chicago on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Praise for Percival Everett by Virgil Russell "[A] stark, shattering novel . . . Deeply moving." - The Wall Street Journal "Percival Everett numbers among his very best." -Lydia Millet, Los Angeles Times "Funny, insightful, and unpredictable . . . Everett is a master of his trade." - Time Out Chicago
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA 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 stories--fathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarians--small 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 actor. Half an Inch of Water tears through the fabric of the everyday to examine what lies beneath the surface of these lives. In the hands of master storyteller Everett, the act of questioning leads to vistas more strange and unsettling than could ever have been expected.
LC Classification NumberPS3555.V34
