Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories

"Outlaws of the Purple Cow centers around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh." "Goran's evocative settings and narratives range from the supernatural to the humorous, from bawdy to richly detailed realism: the bewildering ceremony enacted on a suburban lawn on Good Friday; an inventory of the loves of a lifetime complied on scraps of paper and matchbook covers; the young man home on leave from the army who encounters a woman whose entire life is reflected in the wires holding together her threadbare Christmas tree; and the young man on the first day of his first job who delivers roses to a house where the homeowner has died since ordering the flowers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved