false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg 344701 1 The vast, unsettling landscape of the American Southwest is as much a character in Ryan Harty's debut collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, as the men and women who inhabit its award-winning stories. In eight vivid tales of real life in the west, Harty reminds us that life's greatest challenge may be to find the fine balance between desire and obligation. <P>A high school football player must make a choice between family and friends when his older brother commits an act of senseless violence. A middle-aged man must fly to Las Vegas to settle his dead sister's estate, only to discover that he must first confront his guilt over his sister's death. A young teacher tries to help a homeless girl, but, as their lives intertwine, he begins to understand that his generosity is motivated by his own relenting sense of lonliness. <P>Well-intentioned but ultimately human, the characters in these stories often fall short of achieving grace. But the possibility of redemption, like the Sonoran Desert at the edge of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona's suburban landscapes, is never far off. Harty's characters are as complicated as the people we know, and his vision of life in the west is as hopeful as it is strikingly real. 335031 1 10 2003 Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona (Iowa Short Fiction Award) total:110|5:39|4:45|3:18|2:6|1:2| 110 443 156 12 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 5 1 false Mon Aug 20 10:52:22 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 10:53:33 -0700 2007 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 5 0 false Wed Mar 05 05:09:01 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 15:34:15 -0700 2008 Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona came as a series of really pleasant surprises - depressing (yes, the title is a fair one) but certainly not maudlin. I thought it would be hard to top the first story, which opens with, "On his first night home from marine boot camp, my brother kille...more...]]> 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 5 0 false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 23:12:20 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 23:23:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 4 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 08:03:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 08:13:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 5 0 false Tue Dec 09 18:06:29 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 07 10:25:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 03 16:10:08 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 13:02:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 344701 0877458693 9780877458692 110 12 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173916366m/344701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344701.Bring_Me_Your_Saddest_Arizona 2 0 false Tue Apr 22 13:04:24 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 13:06:12 -0700 2008
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