These gritty stories hit hard and deep and present a broad spectrum of character and plot, leaving the reader at one moment laughing over a Southwestern brand of chicanery as delightful as anything out of William Faulkner or Guy Owen, at the next solemnly touched by stories as poignant as the dramas of Horton Foote or the short fiction of Katherine Anne Porter.
These gritty stories hit hard and deep and present a broad spectrum of character and plot, leaving the reader at one moment laughing over a Southweste...
In this gripping first novel by the winner of the 1992 "Texas Review Press" Southern and Southwestern Writers Breakthrough Award for Fiction, Robert Winship once again sets his story largely on a West Texas ranch, where college athletic director Mase Mason learns a great deal more about himself and human nature than he even suspected. When Mason throws a football game for one hundred thousand dollars, little does he know the chain of events that he has set in motion. He goes to West Texas to the ranch of Raleigh Jones to meet the man who will bring his money, taking with him a female...
In this gripping first novel by the winner of the 1992 "Texas Review Press" Southern and Southwestern Writers Breakthrough Award for Fiction, Robert W...
When George Garrett wrote of Robert Winship's The "Brushlanders," "Robert Winship has an abiding and powerful sense of place and, even better, compassion for and curiosity about people--the inhabitants," he might well have been writing about "Flannery's Crossing," which, set also in West Texas, focuses on one Arthur Flannery, an aging cowboy, who finds himself resident in a fleabag hotel in Pecos. When Paul Markham, proprietor of the Courtney, begins losing customers because of a freight train that roars past the hotel in the early morning hours, he is helpless to stop it. Flannery saves the...
When George Garrett wrote of Robert Winship's The "Brushlanders," "Robert Winship has an abiding and powerful sense of place and, even better, compass...
"I was trying to remember the other day exactly what my first memories are of Kimble County, of Junction, of Segovia, Texas. There is some spectacular stuff there, if I can bring it all to the surface--without making anything up. That's not real hard to do, but it takes time. You have to go slow."--Bob Winship "In my almost forty years of editing, from journals to anthologies to books, I have from time to time encountered a spectacular talent who, because of circumstance, has never been recognized for the genius that he is. Such is the case with Bob Winship, whose story collection "The...
"I was trying to remember the other day exactly what my first memories are of Kimble County, of Junction, of Segovia, Texas. There is some spectacular...
