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Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In a collection of fictional short stories, Triple Double Diamond explores the relationships and grit of people who dwell in the Nevadan landscape. The stories roam between neon cities like Reno and Las Vegas to small high-desert towns like Wells and Gerlach, focusing on the people who live within these places. The people in this collection are restaurant servers, fur trappers, part- time gold miners, gamblers, park rangers, and veterans, and the stories look at the inner lives of these characters.
No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey
No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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The Republic Of Catatonia: A Novel, David Byron Queen
The Republic Of Catatonia: A Novel, David Byron Queen
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
My thesis, a novel titled The Republic of Catatonia, is a story of a broken family, and the one man trying to keep their legacy alive. An adrift academic named Miles Cata moves back to Northeastern Montana from New York City, when he learns about the death of his father. When he arrives, it turns out his father isn’t dead, and Miles soon learns of his father’s plan for building an autonomous micro-nation on the property of their Montana ranch. The novel is set in the '90s against the backdrop of the Bakken oil boom, and much of the …