DESCRIPTION
Three stories of magic realism. Illustrated by Richard Schindler. This chapbook was #2 in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series.
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PRAISE FOR THE MAGIC DEER
The Magic Deer [is] told with strong authorial voice, almost in the manner of oral storytelling....I was affected so strongly by the reading that I couldn't go to anything else when I was done; picking up another book seemed a letdown..."
--C. Darren Butler, Magic Realism
These three stories show Beasley at the top of his form...at home with the mysterious, inexplicable and timeless."
--Laurel Speer, Small Press Review
--C. Darren Butler, Magic Realism
These three stories show Beasley at the top of his form...at home with the mysterious, inexplicable and timeless."
--Laurel Speer, Small Press Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Conger Beasley Jr., has published two novels and three collections of short fiction. His most recent book is We Are a People in This World: The Lakota and the Massacre at Wounded Knee (University of Arkansas, 1995). In 1991 he was given the World Hunger Media Award for journalism for his three-part series, "Of Pollution and Poverty" (Buzzworm Magazine) and the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement for his book, Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual (University of Arkansas, 1990).