Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American West

by Miles Wilson

Overview

These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West. Ranging from realism to fables, from childhood to senescence, from a faltering rancher to the rich and rocky road of fatherhood, Woodswork is filled with indelible characters keenly rendered. This is not fast-food fiction but a nourishing feast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826359513
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	721 KB

About the Author

Miles Wilson’s short stories have been widely published, and his collection Line of Fall won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. He is also the author of two other prize-winning books, Fire Season and Harm: Poems. Wilson is a distinguished professor emeritus at Texas State University, where he founded the MFA program.

Table of Contents

Facing the Forest

Line of Fall 3

The Lord of Misrule at Separation Creek 19

Gospel Hump 27

Fire Season 37

Family Tree

Hanford Reach 57

Tiller 63

Flesh and Blood 71

In the Palouse 77

Christmas at the Dixie Motel 83

The Groves of Academe

Blue Sky Blue 103

On Tour with Max 111

Wyoming 121

Bonsai

Long Green 135

Waterworks, Rim, and Angel 139

Body 143

HOA 151

Arboretum

Field of Vision 157

Everything 173

The Persistence of Desire 189

Hampton Station 199

Tough 211

Outrider 229

Acknowledgments 239

Editorial Reviews

"A compelling read."—Roundup

"This collection of mostly gut-wrenching stories is one of the best pieces of literature I have read in a long, long while. It should become a classic. . . . Comparisons might include . . . books by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, Hemingway, Ray Carver, Norman Maclean, Larry Brown, William Kittredge's We Are Not in This Together and Owning It All, Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall. And also Tom McGuane. But Miles Wilson has his own original voice and it's a doozy. I'm startled by how good this book is."—John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War

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