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Janet Peery

Alligator Dance: Stories (Southwest Life And Letters)

Southern Methodist University Press (Oct 31, 1993)

9780870743665

| Trade Paperback

208 pages | 152 x 239 mm | English

$ 10.95 | Value: $ 10.95

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Dewey F PEE SS

LC Classification PS3566.E284 .A79 1993

LC Control No. 93018694

Genre

Fiction

Subject

Fiction / General
Fiction / Short Stories (single Author)
Short Stories, American

Plot

Their marriage and - each in a different way - the limits of their knowledge. Set in 1950s Milwaukee, "Alligator Dance" depicts a fourth grader's sexual awakening as she is attracted and repelled by a Polish boy's totemic words, images, and their mysterious meanings, and by her own confusing desires. Eager to please her lawyer father, a young girl in "The Waco Wego" accompanies him to a meeting with a murderer's mother at a truckstop where she confronts the complexities.