The Quiet Enemy: Stories by Cecil Dawkins (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Cecil Dawkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820317853 ISBN 13: 9780820317854

Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, 1995

Synopsis

These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

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Review:

Dawkins has an instinct for harsh confrontations, an eye for the moment that sears.

--New York Times Book Review

Her stories have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind.

--Time

Dawkins is an American writer of exceptional talent. . . . Closely observant, sharp, often critical, always written with grace, the stories in The Quiet Enemy demand thoughtful respect.

--Chicago Tribune

From the Back Cover:

In seven stories set in the rural South and West, Cecil Dawkins displays her remarkable talent for getting beneath the surface of ordinary lives and revealing their foibles and idiosyncrasies. An old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger she takes to be the devil; an atom bomb is tested in the Arizona desert; a man shoots a housebreaker dead; a son comes home for a funeral; a child disappears; a boy has his faith destroyed; a parched, money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard. From these occasions Dawkins distills strong, rich stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0820317853
• ISBN 13: 9780820317854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224