Bob Dollar, a young Denver man, learns the hard way how vigorously owners will try to hold on to their land when he goes scouting for the site of a hog farm for his employer Global Pork Rind in the rural Texas town of Woolybucket.
A compilation of twenty-one American short stories by authors such as Cynthia Ozick, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Clyde Edgerton, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of one hundred additional notable stories from 1996.
Loyal Blood inalterably changes the course of his life and the fortunes of his family members when he deserts the family's New England farm after accidently killing his lover.
A fictional account of different immigrant families in America who all have owned a single handmade accordian. Follows their quests for a fulfilled life in America from Iowa to Texas and from Maine to Louisiana.
