Late In The Standoff: Stories And A Novella

by Tracy Daugherty

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870744984
• ISBN13: 9780870744983
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A novella and 5 short stories feature people caught up in conflicts where solutions & resolutions

Tracy Daugherty's distinctive and highly recommended fiction draws from the cultural and social forces that shape and influence the intimate behavior of otherwise ordinary people. Late In The Standoff comprises a novella and five short stories feature people caught up in conflicts where solutions and resolutions arise from unexpected quarters. In "Power Lines" a young man's sexual awakening in Midland, Texas, coincides with lessons about heroism and loyalty during one hot summer that is suddenly seared with violence. In "The Standoff", a retired politician and his asthmatic grandson rediscover their bond on a trip to a small Oklahoma town where the old man has been asked to settle an "Indian dispute". In "Cotton Flat Road", a brother and sister life the lid on their differences as he discovers her secret life across the tracks in the Texas oil town they grew up in. "Lamplighter", "City Codes", and "Anna Lia" round out this impressive and literate anthology showcasing a major talent by an author whose "day job" is directing the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State University and is on the MFA faculty at Warren Wilson College.