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Thank you also to the following works: A Military Garden—a pamphlet written by Georges Truffaut, with the collaboration of Helen Colt, in 1919; Eugen Weber’s Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870–1914 (Stanford University Press, 1976)—from which I drew some historical data on chariveries and veillées, as well as ‘sayings’; Miasmas to Molecules by Barry Wood (Columbia University Press, 1961); The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland by Stephen Johnson, Gerald Haslan, and Robert Dawson (University of California Press, 1993); Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California by J. S. Holliday (University of California Press, 1999); Belles Saisons, the writing of Colette assembled by Robert Phelps (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978); Blessings of the Wind by Tad Wise (Chronicle Books, 2002); The Tevis Cup by Marnye Langer (The Lyons Press, 2003); Road Hustler by Robert Prus and C. R. D. Sharper (Kaufman and Greenberg, 1979). Some descriptions of the First Gulf War that Dorn mentions during the game of Texas Hold ‘Em are drawn from Martyrs’ Day: Chronicle of a Small War by Michael Kelly (Random House, 2001); Kelly was killed during the Second Gulf War. Annie Dillard’s lines on page 141 appeared in The American Scholar, Spring 2004. The information about gotraskhalana comes from Wendy Doniger’s book The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
By the Same Author
FICTION AND MEMOIR
Coming Through Slaughter (1976)
Running in the Family (1982)
In the Skin of a Lion (1987)
The English Patient (1992)
Anil’s Ghost (2000)
POETRY
The Dainty Monsters (1967)
The Man with Seven Toes (1969)
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970)
Rat Jelly (1973)
Elimination Dance (1976)
There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do (1979)
Secular Love (1984)
The Cinnamon Peeler (1991)
Handwriting (1998)
NON-FICTION
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art
of Editing Film (2002)
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