Small Craft Warnings: Stories

by Kate Braverman

Book Overview

The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874173213
• ISBN13: 9780874173215
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

philosophy

What a remarkable collection. Its really a meditation on existence. This is a museum of life in all its sadness and beauty.

rich, lush, poetic short stories

My favorite type of prose are written by poets. Reading Kate Braverman is like filling on a rich desert. I am reminded of Jeanette Winterson and Arhundati Roy. It is hard to find such deeply poetic prose today. This is not a grocery store paperback--it requires slow reading and it is worth every minute. It is a feast of words and images and ideas.