The Woman in the Oil Field Stories by Tracy Daugherty

The stories in this timely collection range from intimate family portraits to broader pictures of art and culture and politics. From the sometimes humorous predicaments of the American gender wars and domestic change, to class conflicts, to artistic innovation with its personal costs, and to the horrors of the Stalinist period and the more recent Middle Eastern wars, the twentieth century's violent history haunts these stories. With a compassionate eye on human frailties and needs, Daugherty's stories create a contemporary kaleidoscope of the forces that shape us.

"Daugherty combines the serious and literary with the funny and offbeat, resulting in sparkle-plenty prose with an ear for dialogue that never fails. The stories here are first-rate."—Beverly Lowry

"Daugherty's collection is the strongest I've read this year. It's full of detail, believable conversation, and thought-provoking ideas about artists, family relations, and the sometimes odd states of grace to which his characters aspire. Really: read this."—Ann Beattie

A native of Midland, Texas, TRACY DAUGHERTY studied with Donald Barthelme at the University of Houston. His first novel, Desire Provoked, won the Southwestern Booksellers' Texas Literary Award. His second novel, What Falls Away, was the 1994 winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for the novel. Winner of the 1992 A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Short Fiction Award, a former Bread Loaf fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar, he is an associate professor of English at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

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The Woman in the Oil Field
ISBN 0-87074-402-X cloth $22.50
ISBN 0-87074-403-8 paper $12.95

LC 96-26734. 5 1/2x8 1/2. 192 pp.
Fiction.

Publication Date: November 1996.

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