University of Nevada Press

BROWSE - SERIES - Western Literature Series

33 - 40 of 70 books

[Paperback] - $17.00

Stories

Katharine Haake's The Height and Depth of Everything is a book of journeys in which dislocated women make unsettling forays into the new West.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95

Hope and Dread in Montana Literature

by Ken Egan

The rich literary tradition of Montana, contends author Ken Egan Jr., reflects a catastrophic vision of the West that shows the "... more

[Paperback] - $12.00

The House on Breakaheart Road

Poems

by Gailmarie Pahmeier

This breathtaking collection of poems by award-winning Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier explores the many facets of a woman's experience.... more

[Paperback] - $18.95

Imagining Los Angeles

A City in Fiction

by David Fine

The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America.... more

[Paperback] - $12.00

In Gravity National Park

Poems

by C. L. Rawlins

In his poetry, writer and mountaineer C. L. Rawlins evokes the natural world and the American West in exciting detail.... more

[Paperback] - $16.00

In the Shadow of the Strip

Las Vegas Stories

Edited by Richard Logsdon, Todd Moffett, Tina D. Eliopulos

Las Vegas holds a unique place in the popular imagination and in the work of any number of contemporary writers of fiction.... more

[Paperback] - $18.00

The Iris Deception

by Bernard Schopen

In this third Jack Ross mystery, the Reno private eye is hired by iris-eyed Patsy McLeod to resume a case abandoned as hopeless eighteen years earlier—the search for her missing teenage daughter Heather.... more

[Paperback] - $16.00

Just Past Labor Day

Selected and New Poems, 1969-1995

by Kirk Robertson

Kirk Robertson, according to critic William Kittredge, is "one of those writers we listen to with gratitude.... more