Red Ant House (e-book) (used book) | Ann Cummins | bookbook.eu

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Hypnotic short stories of life in the Southwest that "emanate suspense, inspiring page-turning tension" (The Washington Times).

A young woman is pushed, quite literally, to the edge on a desolate mountain pass. An orphaned brother and sister try to patch together an existence one stitch at a time. A cop suspects his kleptomaniac wife is stealing from other people--materially and emotionally. A girl waits to meet the sexual predator who has been calling her. A wily roadside hypnotist seems to possess a power both wonderful and strange.

Set amid Indian reservations, uranium mills, and other locations across the American Southwest, these twelve stories by the author of Yellowcake--chosen as one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews--create a kaleidoscopic view of family, myth, love, landscape, and loss in a place where infinite skies and endless roads suggest a world of possibility, yet dreams are deceiving, like an oasis, just beyond reach.


Red ant house
Trapeze
The shiprock fair
Blue fly
Where I work
Crazy yellow
Headhunter
Dr. War is a voice on the phone
The hypnotist 's trailer
Bitterwater
Starburst
Billy by the bay