Borrowed Hearts New and Selected Stories

by DeMarinis, Rick; Welch, James

• ISBN13: 9781583220405
• ISBN10: 1583220402
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-03
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Rick DeMarinis has been compared to Raymond Carver, James Welch, Jim Harrison, and Flannery O'Connor, to name a few; to read him is to enter a world that is original, profound, and darkly comic, constituting an important page in the history of 20th-century American writing. Borrowed Hearts is the first collection of work from DeMarinis's entire short-story writing career. Here are eleven new stories alongside twenty-one chosen by the author from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections: Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The Coming of the Free World, a New York Times Notable Book (1988); and The Voice of America (1991).

Author Biography

RICK DEMARINIS is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction. His stories have appeared in Harper's, Antaeus, Story, Epoch, and many others. In 1990 he received a Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
James Welch
UNDER THE WHEAT (1986)
Under the Wheat	3	(9)
Billy Ducks Among the Paraohs	12	(15)
Life Between Meals	27	(10)
The Smile of a Turtle	37	(5)
Weeds	42	(13)
THE COMING TRIUMPH OF THE FREE WORLD (1988)
The Handgun	55	(7)
disneyland	62	(19)
Romance: A Prose Villanelle	81	(12)
Your Story	93	(9)
Pagans	102	(5)
Your Burden Is Lifted, Love Returns	107	(6)
Medicine Man	113	(22)
THE VOICE OF AMERICA (1991)
Safe Forever	135	(14)
Desert Places	149	(9)
Paraiso: An Elegy	158	(9)
An Airman's Goodbye	167	(12)
Aliens	179	(10)
Horizontal Snow	189	(9)
Wilderness	198	(13)
The Voice of America	211	(5)
Insulation	216	(9)
BORROWED HEARTS (New Stories)
Borrowed Hearts	225	(6)
A Romantic Interlude	231	(7)
Experience	238	(10)
Fault Lines	248	(7)
Feet	255	(6)
Hormone X	261	(8)
Novias	269	(8)
On the Lam	277	(10)
Sieze the Day	287	(8)
The Boys We Were, The Men We Became	295	(21)
The Singular We	316