The Quiet Enemy (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Dawkins, Cecil

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9780140080117: The Quiet Enemy (Contemporary American Fiction)

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ISBN 10: 0140080112 ISBN 13: 9780140080117

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1986

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Seven stories tell of a farmer who shoots a burglar, a roadside stand near a nuclear test site, and an old woman's encounter with the devil

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In seven stories set in the rural South and West, Cecil Dawkins displays her remarkable talent for getting beneath the surface of ordinary lives and revealing their foibles and idiosyncrasies. An old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger she takes to be the devil; an atom bomb is tested in the Arizona desert; a man shoots a housebreaker dead; a son comes home for a funeral; a child disappears; a boy has his faith destroyed; a parched, money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard. From these occasions Dawkins distills strong, rich stories.

About the Author:

Cecil Dawkins, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, now lives in New Mexico. In addition to The Quiet Enemy, she is the author of two novels, The Live Goat and Charleyhorse, and a play, The Displaced Person, which is based on stories by Flannery O'Connor. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Paris Review, Sewanee Review, and other literary magazines.

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