Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest

Author:   D. Seth Horton ,  Brett Garcia Myhren
Publisher:   University of New Mexico Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 July 2013
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Author:   D. Seth Horton ,  Brett Garcia Myhren
Publisher:   University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:   University of New Mexico Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780826353146


ISBN 10:   0826353142
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 July 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A literary cornucopia of superbly crafted short stories, Road to Nowhere and Other Stories from the Southwest is a fascinating and entertaining anthology that will leave readers eagerly tracking down more from the represented writers.--Midwest Book Review Put aside what you thought you knew for sure about Southwest stories and get ready for an all-new and updated view of the way we live now. . . . The landscape is eternal--hot, breathless, by turns serene and menacing--but it is a living backdrop that speaks to a twenty-first-century Southwest literary tradition and provides us with a fresh way of understanding ourselves and our shared experience.--Southwest Books of the Year The wise, tough depictions of these unforgettable roads to ruin will cause you surprise--and gratitude. The characters here are true creatures of the desert making their way through the Middle of Nowhere to Nowhere, through the dry river beds, the dry lake beds and wastelands, and to the irredeemable places of ghosts and gun culture. Always desiring to leave, they resolve to stay, to be damaged and to cause damage. They find no shelter from the truth of their choices, past and present. Reading this fine anthology is like traveling under the searing, purifying Southwest sky. 'Why have I come?' you will ask, and 'Why would I ever leave?'--Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories This staccato portrait of the modern Southwest is a collage of human struggles painted over seething layers of history, culture, and violence. . . . A compelling read. Five stars.--Phaedra Greenwood, enchantment In this book the Southwest emerges as a region dominated by short, intercut 'sights' rather than John Ford or Park Service panoramas. The views of the Southwest presented here are fleeting glances--a San Diego neighborhood glimpsed from a freeway on-ramp, a baby's cry heard in the desert night, freshly graded roads to subdivisions that don't yet exist. These stories force the Southwest to face itself in a future neither tourists nor locals could have foretold. --Phillip Round, author of The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley


<p> The wise, tough depictions of these unforgettable roads to ruin will cause you surprise--and gratitude. The characters here are true creatures of the desert making their way through the Middle of Nowhere to Nowhere, through the dry river beds, the dry lake beds and wastelands, and to the irredeemable places of ghosts and gun culture. Always desiring to leave, they resolve to stay, to be damaged and to cause damage. They find no shelter from the truth of their choices, past and present. Reading this fine anthology is like traveling under the searing, purifying Southwest sky. 'Why have I come?' you will ask, and 'Why would I ever leave?' --Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories <br>


A literary cornucopia of superbly crafted short stories, Road to Nowhere and Other Stories from the Southwest is a fascinating and entertaining anthology that will leave readers eagerly tracking down more from the represented writers. --Midwest Book Review Put aside what you thought you knew for sure about Southwest stories and get ready for an all-new and updated view of the way we live now. . . . The landscape is eternal--hot, breathless, by turns serene and menacing--but it is a living backdrop that speaks to a twenty-first-century Southwest literary tradition and provides us with a fresh way of understanding ourselves and our shared experience. --Southwest Books of the Year The wise, tough depictions of these unforgettable roads to ruin will cause you surprise--and gratitude. The characters here are true creatures of the desert making their way through the Middle of Nowhere to Nowhere, through the dry river beds, the dry lake beds and wastelands, and to the irredeemable places of ghosts and gun culture. Always desiring to leave, they resolve to stay, to be damaged and to cause damage. They find no shelter from the truth of their choices, past and present. Reading this fine anthology is like traveling under the searing, purifying Southwest sky. 'Why have I come?' you will ask, and 'Why would I ever leave?' --Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories This staccato portrait of the modern Southwest is a collage of human struggles painted over seething layers of history, culture, and violence. . . . A compelling read. Five stars. --Phaedra Greenwood, enchantment In this book the Southwest emerges as a region dominated by short, intercut 'sights' rather than John Ford or Park Service panoramas. The views of the Southwest presented here are fleeting glances--a San Diego neighborhood glimpsed from a freeway on-ramp, a baby's cry heard in the desert night, freshly graded roads to subdivisions that don't yet exist. These stories force the Southwest to face itself in a future neither tourists nor locals could have foretold. --Phillip Round, author of The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley


In this book the Southwest emerges as a region dominated by short, intercut 'sights' rather than John Ford or Park Service panoramas. The views of the Southwest presented here are fleeting glances--a San Diego neighborhood glimpsed from a freeway on-ramp, a baby's cry heard in the desert night, freshly graded roads to subdivisions that don't yet exist. These stories force the Southwest to face itself in a future neither tourists nor locals could have foretold. --Phillip Round, author of The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley Put aside what you thought you knew for sure about Southwest stories and get ready for an all-new and updated view of the way we live now. . . . The landscape is eternal--hot, breathless, by turns serene and menacing--but it is a living backdrop that speaks to a twenty-first-century Southwest literary tradition and provides us with a fresh way of understanding ourselves and our shared experience. --Southwest Books of the Year A literary cornucopia of superbly crafted short stories, Road to Nowhere and Other Stories from the Southwest is a fascinating and entertaining anthology that will leave readers eagerly tracking down more from the represented writers. --Midwest Book Review The wise, tough depictions of these unforgettable roads to ruin will cause you surprise--and gratitude. The characters here are true creatures of the desert making their way through the Middle of Nowhere to Nowhere, through the dry river beds, the dry lake beds and wastelands, and to the irredeemable places of ghosts and gun culture. Always desiring to leave, they resolve to stay, to be damaged and to cause damage. They find no shelter from the truth of their choices, past and present. Reading this fine anthology is like traveling under the searing, purifying Southwest sky. 'Why have I come?' you will ask, and 'Why would I ever leave?' --Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico: Stories This staccato portrait of the modern Southwest is a collage of human struggles painted over seething layers of history, culture, and violence. . . . A compelling read. Five stars. --Phaedra Greenwood, enchantment


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D. Seth Horton is the editor of four previous collections of western short stories, most recently Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. Brett Garcia Myhren, an associate editor on Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, teaches at the University of Southern California and Saddleback College, USA.

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