"Higher Elevations: Stories from the West" is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from "Writers' Forum." As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfather's (or Hollywood's) West. These are rodeos and forest fires, lonely farmhouses, and isolated lives in wide open spaces, but there are also stories of the urban homeless, of teenage girls in the club and drug scene of present-day Austin, of wetbacks, Vietnamese immigrants, literate writers of advertising commercials living in high-rise flats. There are action stories and stories of local color,...

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest. In a career spanning more than half a century, he shared, through his many books, his insights and discoveries with countless readers across the globe.
Now, drawn from rare editorials, speeches, and essays that Frank Waters authored over the years as a reflection and a formation of his life-long themes, "Pure Waters" provides a treasure trove of exciting new material...

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest. In a career spanning more than half a century, he shared, through his many books, his insights and discoveries with countless readers across the globe. Now, drawn from rare editorials, speeches, and essays that Frank Waters authored over the years as a reflection and affirmation of his lifelong themes, Pure Waters provides a treasure trove of exciting new material from...

The Door of the Sad People is a coming of age story placed against the background of the Colorado coalmining wars long remembered for the Ludlow Massacre of 1914. Visionary, the novel traces the tyrannous countenance of a corporate society to its origins in humankind's "sad" limitations and flaws.

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate how the picaresque masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age founded a narrative structure that was continued by Defoe, Smollett, Melville, Twain, and Mann.

Originally published in 1979.

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Suddenly a Mortal Splendor, is the chronicle of Hungarian refugee Paul Szabo's unpromising beginnings and varied journey through three continents and thirty-five years. It is a story of shifting identities, of political and personal oppression, and a novel with roots firmly grounded in the picaresque tradition.