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Item Details
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THE QUIET ENEMY
STORIES BY CECIL DAWKINS |
| By: |
Cecil Dawkins |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£20.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820317853 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820317854 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 1995 |
| Series: |
Brown Thrasher Books |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself. |
| Synopsis: |
In seven stories set in the rural South and West, Cecil Dawkins displays her remarkable talent for getting beneath the surface of ordinary lives and revealing their foibles and idiosyncrasies. An old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger she takes to be the devil; an atom bomb is tested in the Arizona desert; a man shoots a housebreaker dead; a son comes home for a funeral; a child disappears; a boy has his faith destroyed; a parched, money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard. From these occasions Dawkins distills strong, rich stories.Dawkins writes about people not sharply aware of their own motives or the sources of their emotions--people blinkered by life in remote places or by lack of good fortune. The remarkable power of her stories comes from the way she can express so much through characters who themselves can express little. She does it by her brilliant evocation of background and the truthfulness of her observation, and by her gift of compassionate understanding, which demolishes the distances between people. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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