Drinking Dry Clouds

by Ehrlich, Gretel

• ISBN13: 9780803267541
• ISBN10: 0803267541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese Americans interned at Wyoming's Heart Mountain. Many of these characters were introduced in Ehrlich's novel Heart Mountain. As she explains, "When I returned to my characters, five years after their initial appearance in my life, they seemed to want to report to me, so I let them speak in the first person."Gretel Ehrlich divides her time between California and Wyoming. She is the winner of a National Endowment for the Arts award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Distinguished Prose award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her books include This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold, and The Solace of Open Spaces.

Author Biography

Gretel Ehrlich divides her time between California and Wyoming. She is the winner of a National Endowment for the Arts award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Distinguished Prose award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her books include This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold, and The Solace of Open Spaces.

Table of Contents

PART I: During the War
Pinkey	11	(20)
Kai and Bobby	31	(18)
McKay	49	(20)
Thursdays at Snuff's	69	(26)
PART II: After the War
Madeleine's Day	95	(10)
Pinkey	105	(6)
Kai's Mother	111	(6)
Henry	117	(2)
Champ's Roan Colt	119	(6)
McKay	125	(8)
The Baby	133	(8)
Velma Vermeer	141	(6)
Bobby's Cabin	147	(7)
Ted's Night	154