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<p>&nbsp;<i>When Gramp tied those thin-bodied</i> ephemerella, <i>as he called them, on size-eighteen hooks, their pale green bodies and diaphanous gray wings reminded us of tiny, unmoored sailboats, and when the duns themselves were adrift upon the surface of the pool, we watched as an entire armada of delicate, translucent ships spun and took flight. . . . I couldn't fish right away. I never can when the duns first come up. I have to watch them, suddenly upon the surface, their wings drying for that one day of life above the stream. . . . To have a chance at life, each pale dun for a time must drift, ignorant of the forms that wait below.</i></p><p>In the thirteen stories of <i>Pale Morning Dun,</i> Richard Dokey endeavors to suggest common truths that uncover the human reality any time, in any place. He explores the ephemeral nature of life through an assemblage of characters as diverse as the settings they inhabit: from a beggar on the streets of San Francisco, 'The West Coast Coliseum of Consumption,' to a boy and his brother fly-fishing in a peaceful mountain stream, unaware that they have stumbled upon the threshold of a horrific crime; from a desperate husband pursuing his

Author
Dokey, Richard
Publisher
Columbia [Mo.]: University of Missouri Press
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780826215116
Subjects
Short Stories, Sociology, Literary Fiction

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