Whispers in Dust and Bone
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04/2003. viii, 181 pages. 0896724964 Dr. Geyer’s collection of short fiction Whispers in Dust and Bone has been recognized as one of four finalists for the John Gardner Fiction Award for 2003. Dr. Geyer’s book was selected from 400 works of fiction published in the previous year. “Second Coming,” one of the stories in the collection, received the 2004 Spur Award as the best story published in 2003 using settings, characters, conditions, or customs indigenous to the American West. To view a video of Dr. Geyer discussing two stories from the collection–”Trust Jesus” and “Second Coming”–click here. Diverse in setting and broad in range, these award-winning stories all turn, in some way, on the passing of the rural Southwest Texas way of life and its stamp on those who leave there.Ranging from bare-bones narratives to magical realism and ever lush in regional particulars, the stories all center on a sense of place. Sharing a point of origin and a journey, their characters weave in and out of the stories, looking for new starts-for answers-and seeing the world through dry eyes. They explore exotic Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and a dig site in Peru and make a voyage of discovery down the Amazon River. They lose faith in God and find it again in such unlikely places as a water lot in South Carolina. The displaced protagonists all search for something elusive, something lost, yet in Geyer’s hands are yoked by a tension that is somehow always new and always compelling.
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