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- The Spirit Bird: Stories
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
The flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a fancy mountain town. Other protagonists yearn to cross a racial divide, keep developers from a local island, explore their sexuality, and mourn a lost loved one. The characters in this collection are compelled to seek beyond their own horizons, and as the stories unfold, the search becomes the expression of their desires. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we’ve lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don’t know about ourselves.
The flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a fancy mountain town. Other protagonists yearn to cross a racial divide, keep developers from a local island, explore their sexuality, and mourn a lost loved one. The characters in this collection are compelled to seek beyond their own horizons, and as the stories unfold, the search becomes the expression of their desires. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we’ve lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don’t know about ourselves.
Table of Contents
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- The Spirit Bird
- pp. 25-39
- La Mer de l’Ouest
- pp. 68-107
- The Hotel Glitter
- pp. 108-127
- Who Is Danny Pendergast?
- pp. 128-153
- The Man at Quitobaquito
- pp. 154-163
- Seeing Desirable Things
- pp. 164-185
- The Graceless Age
- pp. 186-212
- The Path of the Left Hand
- pp. 213-237
- La Garza Del Sol
- pp. 238-258
- Joan of Dreams
- pp. 259-266
- The Beautiful Light
- pp. 267-294
- My Crazy Father
- pp. 295-318
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 319-320
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822980223
Related ISBN(s)
9780822944362, 9780822963875
MARC Record
OCLC
890750164
Pages
330
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-17
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014