In a Bear's Eye

by Yannick Murphy

Overview

“Stories like beautiful black diamonds. Someone has cut you while you were dreaming, slipped them into your muscles, your mind. You may never know just how you’ve been changed.”—Brad Watson, author of The Heaven of Mercury

The title story was included in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2007.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979312311
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	02/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Yannick Murphy is the author of Stories in Another Language, The Sea of Trees, Here They Come, Signed, Mata Hari, and Ahwooooooooo!, a book for children. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a MacDowell Artists' Colony fellowship, she lives with her husband and three children in Vermont.

Table of Contents

Find Natasha     1
Jesus of the Snow     5
In a Bear's Eye     13
Walls     21
The Lost Breed     27
Into the Arms of the Man on the Moon     37
The Story of the Spirit     41
The Fish Keeper     47
Pan, Pan, Pan     53
Lester     65
The Only Light to See By     71
The Beauty in Bulls     77
Kato and the Indians from Here     85
Aunt Germaine     93
Is This a Land, a Continent, Can It Be Conquered?     97
Lake Mohican     103
The Woman in the Leopard-Spotted Robe     107
Abalone, Ebony and Tusk     113
Legacies     119
Whitely on the Tips     123
Real Enough     131
Our Underwater Mother     135
Delaware     141
Ready in the Night     145