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  1. American originals : novellas and short stories

    Daugherty, Tracy
    First edition. - Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2016]

    The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people-literally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness-and people's ability to forgeconnections in spite of extreme conditions. Each piece in thisthematically-linked collection assumes a unique shape, whetherpoetically compressed, echoing (only to break) the contours ofmystery stories, or redolent of the forms of classical prayer. TheTexas of American Originals becomes the landscape of strife andhope, struggle and love, lost and found. The characters in the stories and novellas here learn, sometimesthe hard way, the truth of T. S. Eliot's insight that the "end of allour exploring" in life is to "arrive where we started" and to know, for the first time, who we really are. Saints and sinners, and theblurred lines between them, drive these spare narratives set in theplains and deserts of Texas.

  2. American originals : novellas and short stories

    Daugherty, Tracy
    First edition. - Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2016]

    The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people-literally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness-and people's ability to forgeconnections in spite of extreme conditions. Each piece in thisthematically-linked collection assumes a unique shape, whetherpoetically compressed, echoing (only to break) the contours ofmystery stories, or redolent of the forms of classical prayer. TheTexas of American Originals becomes the landscape of strife andhope, struggle and love, lost and found. The characters in the stories and novellas here learn, sometimesthe hard way, the truth of T. S. Eliot's insight that the "end of allour exploring" in life is to "arrive where we started" and to know, for the first time, who we really are. Saints and sinners, and theblurred lines between them, drive these spare narratives set in theplains and deserts of Texas.

    Online EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

  3. The empire of the dead : stories

    Daugherty, Tracy
    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

    In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people - but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice. Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to first principles - the initial euphoria, the falling-in-love that led him to consider a life devoted to sheltering others. In his ministrations to colleagues and friends, his memories of magical building feats now in the past, he learns the limits and the expansiveness of joy and need. In another tale, we meet a young painter in a Gulf Coast refinery town struggling to differentiate beauty from affliction. His sister's encounter with the singer Janis Joplin causes him to reconsider the nature of saintliness. And in the novella The Magnitudes, a planetarium director, grieving over the unexpected loss of his parents, must learn how much of the universe - both the real sky beyond his reach and the firmament cast upon the planetarium dome - he can control. Like the other characters in Tracy Daugherty's masterful collection, he moves through spaces at once sacred and spoiled, within cities, deserts, and other strange environments, reckoning, taking soundings, trying to find firm footing in the world.In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people - but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice. Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to "first principles" - the "initial euphoria, the falling-in-love" that led him to consider a life devoted to sheltering others. In his ministrations to colleagues and friends, his memories of magical building feats now in the past, he learns the limits and the expansiveness of joy and need. In another tale, we meet a young painter in a Gulf Coast refinery town struggling to differentiate beauty from affliction. His sister's encounter with the singer Janis Joplin causes him to reconsider the nature of saintliness. And in the novella "The Magnitudes, " a planetarium director, grieving over the unexpected loss of his parents, must learn how much of the universe - both the real sky beyond his reach and the firmament cast upon the planetarium dome - he can control. Like the other characters in Tracy Daugherty's masterful collection, he moves through spaces at once sacred and spoiled, within cities, deserts, and other strange environments, reckoning, taking soundings, trying to find firm footing in the world.

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