Labors of the Heart: Stories

by Claire Davis

Book Overview

Set in the small towns and outlands of the American West, Claire Davis's fiction has been anthologized, published in our most respected literary magazines, and widely praised as some of the truest,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031233284X
• ISBN13: 9780312332846
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Claire Davis is more than 5 stars, she's a galaxy!

A prose stylist extraordinaire with a light and fluid touch concerning the heart of humanity, Claire Davis exposes a vein of hidden resolve in the secret folds of her character's interior lives. Her discipline as an artist, enveloped by a great sense of the mystery of the human endeavor and graced by a caring hand, is a golden thread of illumination in the title story and throughout the collection. Davis' work, selected for Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize, is rich with alienation, secrecy, the nuances of power, and the subtle ascendancy of love.