Description
Richly varied in setting and content, these short stories track her diverse characters as they each pursue their own singular American pilgrimage. In the title story, a tough East Coast girl dares a Western cowboy to run off with her. In "The Famous Torn and Restored Cigarette Trick," a family of Hungarian musicians struggles for redemption in Pittsburgh, while in "At the Bronx Terminal Vegetable Market" an ignorant laborer is on an impossible and tragic quest for honor.
Info
ISBN: 9780143113379
Published Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 210
Size: 7.77" l x 5.10" w x 0.59" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
General