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GREAT AMERICAN DESERT IBD

TERESE SVOBODA
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRES
03 / 2019
9780814255209
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Sinopsis

Water, its use and abuse, trickles througháGreat American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie. In 'Dutch Joe,' the eponymous hero sees the future from the bottom of a well in the Sandhills, while a woman tries to drag her sister back from insanity in 'Dirty Thirties.' In 'Bomb Jockey,' a local Romeo disposes of leaky bombs at South DakotaâÇÖs army depot, while a family quarrels in 'Ogallala Aquifer' as a thousand trucks dump chemical waste from a munitions depot next to their land. Bugs and drugs are devoured in 'Alfalfa,' a disc jockey talks her way out of a knifing in 'Sally Rides,' and an updated Pied Piper begs parents to reconsider in 'The Mountain.' The consequences of the landâÇÖs mistreatment is epitomized in the final story by a discovery inside a pink pyramid. á In her arresting and inimitable style, SvobodaâÇÖs delicate handling of the complex dynamics of family and self seeps into every sentence of these first-rate short stories about what we do to the world around us-and what it can do to us. á

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