Deer Walking Upside Down

Synopsis

In this debut short story collection from Jerry McGahan, naturalist, artist, journalist, photographer and author (THE CONDOR BRINGS THE SUN), nature in all its fascinating, perplexing and at times maddening varieties intercedes with the complex yearnings, courtings, departings, and returnings of the human characters, male and female who inhabit the fringes of wilderness in contemporary Montana. In THE DEER WALKING UPSIDE DOWN, which comprises short fiction selected over twenty years, and originally published in such literary journals as The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Northern Lights and Gray’s Sporting journal, McGahan invites us into a world where hard work and an abiding respect for all things wild inform the lives of the inhabitants of this rural paradise, yet not without a price: a nest of wasps grants a measure of grace to a man fearing senility; a hunter of crippled animals is caught by the game warden at a Hmong New Year Celebration; A tree crashes on the house of a newly divorced man who prides himself on his can-do spirit; bears intrude and people’s lives and loves are reversed and blossom around their hives. As men and women reconcile passion and inclination, love and the wreckage of aging, there is always work to be done: fences to be repaired, hives to be tended to, livestock to be fed, and loves to be fostered. In the tradition of Jim Harrison and Tom McGuane, this collection marks the arrival of a distinct voice in the contemporary Western literary landscape.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781936182787

Publisher:

Schaffner Press, Inc.

Date of Addition:

02/15/18

Copyrighted By:

Jerry McGahan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.