Tracy Daugherty

• Dec-1986
• / General Fiction
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Desire Provoked is an amusing look at modern living, while also a meditation on fatherhood, marriage and ambition. The cartographer protagonist of the novel, Sam Adams, can't seem to map out his own life while he maps everything else for a living....

• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction
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Hired to bring culture to the isolated Nevada town of Tilton, Jon Chase and his family encounter a conservative community built over land poisoned by years of underground nuclear testing and caught in an inertia over the loss of its economic base...

• Dec-1996
• / Literary
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• Jun-2002
• / Literary
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The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of he...

• Oct-2003
• / Literary
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A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty’s fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of an inner city neighborhood from the poin...

• Jul-2005
• / Literary
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In this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people's intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind of family squabble whose elusive solution...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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Everyday Psychokillers reaches to the edge of the psychoanalytical and jolts the reader back to daily life. The reader becomes the killer, the watcher, the person on the verge, hiding behind an everyday face....

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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The themes woven through The Woman in the Oil Field involve action and passivity and the different perspectives they inspire. Tracy Daugherty's characters walk the margins of life; seeking the safe periphery from which they assess their friends, love...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people -- but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequence...

• Mar-2016
• / General Fiction
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The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people -- literally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness -- and people’s ab...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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Portland Review 2019 features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and mixed-genre works in its themed anthology, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns. It is the nature of the human mind to seek, to touch, to understand and occupy vast unknowab...

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction
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A 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals.High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and ...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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Fictionalized accounts of John Howard Griffin, Jack Elliott Myers, and Anna Akhmatova, portraying the struggles and sacrifices of the writing life.Tracy Daugherty is an acclaimed biographer of authors, as well as a distinguished fiction author in his...

• Apr-2022
• / Literary
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Tracy Daugherty’s historical novel 148 Charles Street explores the fascinating story of Willa Cather’s friendship with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensi...

• Apr-2024
• / General Fiction
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With heart and humor, Tales from the Bayou City chronicles fifteen years in the life of Houston, Texas, as the city negotiates volatile changes in economic health, race relations, immigration laws, and neighborhood viability. George Palmer, a freelan...