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- catalog abstract ""In Brier Country, Elaine Fowler Palencia returns to Blue Valley, the fictional locale in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky that is the focus of her Small Caucasian Woman. Reuniting readers with characters from her first collection, Palencia continues to map her uniquely poignant territory in these sixteen new stories." "A criminal on the lam in "Waiting for Snow" tries to make up for past transgressions even as the police are closing in. Years later, in "Emus," the retired cop who was part of the chase clears his own conscience. In "Guard Your Man," a high school physical-education teacher works to bring back women's basketball, which was outlawed for forty years in Kentucky. Through the eyes and minds of these various characters, we learn that people in Blue Valley are far more engaging and complex than they originally appear to be." "Throughout these new tales, the super-natural realm hovers behind the curtain of daily life, as in the stories of a nurse who performs a secret function in a city hospital, the eerie automobile journey of an aging salesman making his last trip, and the power of a grouping of trees known as the Three Graces."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11542414.
- catalog coverage "Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Kentucky Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Kentucky Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In Brier Country, Elaine Fowler Palencia returns to Blue Valley, the fictional locale in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky that is the focus of her Small Caucasian Woman. Reuniting readers with characters from her first collection, Palencia continues to map her uniquely poignant territory in these sixteen new stories." "A criminal on the lam in "Waiting for Snow" tries to make up for past transgressions even as the police are closing in. Years later, in "Emus," the retired cop who was part of the chase clears his own conscience. In "Guard Your Man," a high school physical-education teacher works to bring back women's basketball, which was outlawed for forty years in Kentucky. Through the eyes and minds of these various characters, we learn that people in Blue Valley are far more engaging and complex than they originally appear to be." "Throughout these new tales, the super-natural realm hovers behind the curtain of daily life, as in the stories of a nurse who performs a secret function in a city hospital, the eerie automobile journey of an aging salesman making his last trip, and the power of a grouping of trees known as the Three Graces."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Guard your man -- The shoe woman -- The smallest show on earth -- Not paid for -- Waiting for snow -- The long-haired dictionary -- The three graces -- Monroe -- Salvation on calfkiller -- Briers -- Man on horseback -- The Monday club -- Emus -- The coach's wife -- I stand in the doorway -- Now with the other pickled animals.".
- catalog extent "165 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Brier country.".
- catalog identifier "0826212794 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Brier country.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Brier country.".
- catalog spatial "Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Country life Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Country life Kentucky Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mountain life Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mountain life Kentucky Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3566.A4584 B7 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Guard your man -- The shoe woman -- The smallest show on earth -- Not paid for -- Waiting for snow -- The long-haired dictionary -- The three graces -- Monroe -- Salvation on calfkiller -- Briers -- Man on horseback -- The Monday club -- Emus -- The coach's wife -- I stand in the doorway -- Now with the other pickled animals.".
- catalog title "Brier country : stories from Blue Valley / Elaine Fowler Palencia.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".