David Kranes, Author University of Nevada Press $15 (180p) ISBN 978-0-87417-287-4
The problem with Low Tide in the Desert is all the sandbars that strand most of the 11 stories. Kranes relies too on the surreal, but the fantastic needs the support of an underlying idea--which is often not here. The most magical story is ""Salvage,
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David Kranes, Author University of Utah Press $0 (276p) ISBN 978-0-87480-320-4
Benhamin Kohlman, the New York writer-protagonist of this tour de force, sets out to salvage a career so far all promise and no achievement by writing the as-told-to, ``true'' story of Janice Stewart, accused of murdering her father-in-law and...
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David Kranes. Univ. of Nevada, $19.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-943859-44-3
Sprightly yet elegant prose propels this first-rate debut mystery from Kranes (Making the Ghost Dance). Elko Wells, a former professional football player who retired from the game after a head injury, now owns a missing persons’ bureau and an agency
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