"Dallas Wiebe has always written with classical simplicity and power. His new stories are smart, tough, elegant, and unsettlingly original: each holds your heart and mind in an unrelenting if compassionate grip. What are you waiting for?" --Harry Matthews

“one of our best writers of innovative fictions”—Doug Bolling, American Book Review

"Just read these stories!!" -- Phil Paradis

A collection of twelve short stories, mostly reprinted from national journals, including stories that won the Aga Khan and Pushcart prizes.

Born in Kansas in 1930, Dallas Wiebe took degrees at the University of Michigan, then taught at the University of Cincinnati until his recent retirement. His novel Skyblue the Badass was published by Doubleday: Paris Review Editions in 1969. Burning Deck has published three volumes of short stories: The Transparent Eye-Ball, Going to the Mountain, and Skyblue’s Essays. His most recent book is Our Asian Journey (MLR Editions Canada), a fictionalized account of the great Mennonite trek to Central Asia in the 1880s and a study of the impact of language (Biblical) on a community. He has received the Aga Khan Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize (1979), an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, and the Ohio Governor's Award for the Arts.

Burning Deck Press; Providence, Rhode Island, 1988.

191 pages. Paper. Smyth-sewn.

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