The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions

by Harriet Doerr

Book Overview

In her first collection of short stories, Harriet Doerr reveals the same startling sensitivity and sculpted prose that made Stones for Ibarra a runaway bestseller... The fifteen works comprising The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140251480
• ISBN13: 9780140251487
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good but not her best

This set of short stories is similar in tone and setting to Doerr's two novels, Stones for Ibarra and Consider This, Senora. I think you're better off to read either of the novels so that you get a full feel of Doerr's beautiful writing. This collection of short stories feels like a lot of snippets that she didn't know where to fit into her novels.

Exceptional reading

This book reads like poetry. It's been a while since I read it, but am thinking of reading it again...such a beautiful, if not sad look back on a long and rich life centered in a dry and dusty old Mexico.