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Author Svoboda, Terese, author.

Title Great American desert : stories / Terese Svoboda.

Publication Info. Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F SVOBODA    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SVOBODA    Check Shelf
Description vi, 199 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "A collection of short stories, visualizing the Great American Desert as an imagined world unto itself, traced from prehistoric times to the future. Explores water--its use and abuses--and the consequences of the land's mistreatment over time"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Camp Clovis -- Major Long talks to his horse -- Dutch Joe -- Dirty thirties -- Bomb jockey -- Ogallala aquifer -- Cordless in the fifties -- Sally rides -- Rods -- Two feet, four feet -- Endangered species -- Alfalfa -- Africa -- All mapped out -- Mennonite forest -- Mugsy -- Prairie dogs -- Seconds -- Hot rain -- The mountain -- Pink pyramid.
Subject Short stories, American.
Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
Other Form: Online version: Svoboda, Terese. Great American desert. Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2019] 9780814277171 (OCoLC)1086375746
ISBN 9780814255209 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0814255205 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814277171 (electronic bk.)
0814277179 (electronic bk.)
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