Alligator Dance Stories [Paperback]

With the same piercing vision that distinguishes her novel The River Beyond The World, Janet Peery unveils a stunning collection of stories. Settled mostly in the American Southwest, her characters-men and women caught between two places, literal and figurative-try to understand the mysteries that overarch or undergird their lives.

A seasoned storyteller . . . Wisdom, grace, humor, love-these are just a few of the virtues the years have taught Ms. Peery. Paul Scott Malone, The Dallas Morning News

Where are words of praise for superb writing in this day of wasted superlatives? Janet Peery's debut collection of short stories . . . deserves such words . . . This is writing of the highest order. The Virginia Quarterly Review

Wonderfully engaging, verbally interesting page by page, thoughtful and earnest in its concern with moral issues. This is a wonderful book! Rosellen Brown

Janet Peeryis the author of the collectionAlligator Dance, and her stories have been widely published. In addition to being a National Book Award Finalist, she has received an NEA Fellowship, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, and her stories have been twice cited in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize XVI and XVII. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.