Author

Publication

1996 - University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing392463
  • Goodreads2936998

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3561.R26 L6 1996

Description

The eleven short stories in Low Tide in the Desert celebrate a master storyteller's longtime fascination with Nevada, from the deliberately hallucinogenic urban distractions of Reno and Las Vegas to disturbing legends born in Jackpot and Battle Mountain. Some of Kranes's characters we want to know; others we would go out of our way to avoid. But he treats his vivid cross-section of humanity with dignity and even a tenderness completely without sentimentality. Some win, some lose, some are transformed, but, quintessential Nevadans, they all hope.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Western literature series

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