Alyson Hagy, Author . Graywolf $15 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55597-468-8
Childhood friends return from the Korean War differently damaged in Hagy's moving and stark fifth work of fiction (Keeneland
; Graveyard of the Atlantic
). John Fremont Adams, 64, lives on the 36,000-acre sheep ranch in Baggs, Wyo., where he...
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Alyson Hagy, Author . Graywolf $15 (170p) ISBN 978-1-55597-548-7
In her fourth collection of short stories, Hagy (Snow, Ashes
) explores the lonely state of the Equality State, with its literally and figuratively haunted inhabitants. Hagy has an ear for the locals and a feel for the vast lonely landscape,...
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Alyson Hagy, Author Graywolf Press $14 (186p) ISBN 978-1-55597-301-8
The stoic characters in Hagy's third collection of short stories are intimately involved with the sea, but in their interpersonal relationships they tend to be as distant as ships passing in the night. Six of the seven stories in this moving...
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Alyson Hagy, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-85503-5
Even readers who don't give a dang about horses should love Hagy's fresh, funny, brilliantly made and irreducibly twangy debut, whose sassy but chronically unlucky heroine shows us the hardscrabble underside of the glitzy horseracing world--the...
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Alyson Hagy. Graywolf, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55597-612-5
A restless young cowboy bets it all on a horse he raises from filly to mare in Hagy’s (Ghosts of Wyoming) beautiful tale of redemption and perseverance. Will Testerman, raised with two brothers on a small ranch in Lost Cabin, Wyo., by a critical...
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Alyson Hagy. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-55597-818-1
Hagy (Boleto) probes the weight of responsibility and the desperation of survival in a deteriorated society in this evocative, opaque tale. The unnamed protagonist once wrote letters for the survivors of an unexplained war and collapse of...
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