The Best of Montana's Short Fiction - Tapa blanda

"[Thomas McGuane's] story displays all the powerful psychological insight of Chekhov with a little of the restlessness and innovation of Joyce as well. It is literally a tour de force. Similarly, the piece by Annick Smith ("It's Come to This") is a dazzling beauty of a tale, every much the equal of a story by Katherine Anne Porter or Eudora Welty. . . . The Best of Montana's Short Fiction is a lively new anthology, perhaps the most interesting to appear since "Writers of the Purple Sage"." -"The Bloomsbury Review""Never merely decorative, the wild, sometimes 'wide open spaces' in The Best of Montana Short Fiction stretch farther than years and go deeper than character, rooted, as they are, in the fundamentals of life and death."--"San Diego Union Tribune"

"This is a fine book, top-heavy with talent."--"Booklist Montana has long drawn the outcasts and the dreamers, the searchers and the hiders-- and the writers. Here are twenty-one stories from the frontier of our country and the edge of our national imagination. The cast of characters in these stories is as big as the state. There's the cuckolded father in Richard Ford's classic, "Great Falls," or Ralph Beers' hero in "Big Spenders," sitting with his umbrella drink, dreaming about palm trees and white crescent beaches. Mary Clearman Brew's narrator in "Bears and Lions" describes how her home is moving away from her-how the West is leaving her behind. Montana has for years been a special place for writers. The Best of Montana's Short Fiction is long overdue.