In an Arid Land Thirteen Stories of Texas

"In straight-ahead prose, Mr. Malone writes about what happens when we reach those points in our lives when simple hopes go up in smoke. Some of his characters hoped for long and happy marriages. Some hoped for a link to a parent (usually a father). Some hoped for a fresh start. Others wanted something as modest as 'the chance to own my own place and to raise my own tomatoes.' Mr. Malone takes all these losses as a given, then asks: Now what? ...Theirs is a universe of gesture, not words. And in the end the gesture suggests (though it does note evoke) the presence of a frail kind of faith."Malone, Paul S. is the author of 'In an Arid Land Thirteen Stories of Texas' with ISBN 9780875651408 and ISBN 0875651402.