Gallagher, Tess. At the Owl Woman Saloon / [electronic resource] / Tess Gallagher.. — New York : : Scribner,, c1997.. — 234 p. ; 21 cm.
The red ensign -- I got a guy once -- Venison pie -- To dream of bears -- The leper -- Creatures -- She who is untouched by fire -- A box of rocks -- Coming and going -- My gun -- Mr. Woodriff's neckties -- Rain flooding your campfire -- The mother thief -- A glimpse of the Buddha -- The poetry baron -- The woman who prayed.
Анотація: Sixteen stories, mostly set on the West Coast. In My Gun, a woman meditates on the pros and cons of a gun for her protection, in The Leper a woman on the telephone attempts to dissuade a friend from suicide, and Mr. Woodruff's Neckties is on the last days of a man dying from cancer.