Fishing for Ghosts: Twelve Short Stories

by Richard Eric Brown

Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest. These themes--the humor and folktales of the rural Midwest, the bonds between generations and the friction those bonds create, the tensions between a character's country past and city present--are at once archetypically American and specific to each story's particular reality. As the title suggests,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874172292
• ISBN13: 9780874172294
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"