Gladys Swan

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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"One of the finest books in the short fiction series...one feels and tastes her world's weather, sees its terrain, and becomes involved with its people. The author reminds me in some respects of Sherwood Anderson." - George Core, editor, Sewanee Rev...

• Jan-1980
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• Jun-1986
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• Apr-1992
• / Suspense
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hloride, New Mexico, is a dusty mining town slowly bleaching away in the sun, a casualty of the big copper firms' exodus to South America. To the dying place returns Roselle More -- hometown girl and faded Hollywood star -- for the premiere of her ne...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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In A Visit to Strangers, Gladys Swan's characters inhabit slightly alien, off-center worlds as they struggle to achieve some sort of permanence or stability. Strangeness of situation, environment, and relationship prevents them from taking refuge...

• Aug-2000
• / General Fiction
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"News from the Volcano" is a collection of five poignant stories about wanderers and outsiders, people searching for an unnamed something that is missing from their lives. Set in the Southwest, a landscape of vivid contrasts and powerful forces, t...

• Feb-2010
• / Literary
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In this chapbook, you will find the first chapters of Carnival for the Gods, and the four novels that form a sequence from Gladys Swan's comic fantasy, first published in the Vintage Contemporaries Series. The World of Carnival continues with its ori...

• Aug-2011
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The stories in this book have been selected from the six previous collections of short fiction, as well as from recent work, Gladys Swan has published in that genre over the past four decades. Although she also has published novels, poetry, and essay...

• Jan-2015
• / Literary
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A Dark Gamble, a Western epic inspired by the great epic of Gilgamesh, is set in New Mexico during the era when gold and silver were being discovered and prospectors, miners and ranchers were pouring into the territory, the local Apaches consequently...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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In Ancestors, Hawkins, a man adrift, finds himself in a Native American homeland called Chaco Canyon, a place of relics haunted by history. He is besieged by voices revealing memories of other lives, including those of his immediate family, truths he...

• Jul-2018
• / Literary
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The Kid wanted to do something for me -- and the question was, would I let him? He’s on his way up in the world these days, and there’s no telling how high he’ll soar. I figure he’s got the goods, but when I put my mind around what he’s aim...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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A small rag-tag circus/carnival breaks down in the desert in southern New Mexico after a dust storm. Various members of the troupe begin to pull out -- this latest disaster the last straw. Those now left have been faithful followers of Dusty, the own...

• Mar-2021
• / Literary
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Ceremony of Innocence is a complete departure from the world of Gladys Swan's previous novels, The Carnival Quintet and her New Mexico trilogy. This novel deals with the effects of subjugation of the individual and the tyranny and violence of governm...