Dinosaur Café: A Semblance of Monstrous Prairie Creatures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781504915359)

These five stories will leave the reader stunned by unforgettable characters, who are, by turns, superstitious, stubborn, comic, and, even, grotesque. The setting of these stories: a Macondo-like small town, where miracles, and would-be miracles, can and do happen in a backwater of history, which is actually the battle zone of the human heart, in conflict with itself. From the title piece, in which a shadowy artist, on the ceiling of a small town cafe, creates murals of a startling and paradoxical richness; to the plaintive monologue of an elderly farm-woman, standing in the way of the plow that threatens the graves of babies she has sworn to protect; to the marvelous powers of an overworked faith-healer: these stories---shaped from the lore, superstitions, and history of the Dakota Germans---reveal the intense inner world of an unknown ethnic group, working out its destiny on the immensities of the American prairie.

Author: Ron Vossler
ISBN-10: 1504915356
ISBN-13: 9781504915359
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2015
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d