The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge

Master storyteller and essayist William Kittredge is known as one of the most important voices of the American West. The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge makes that evident by bringing together a selection of his new work with a few classic Kittredge stories.

Kittredge, known for his unflinching vision of the hardscrabble landscape of the West and the people who survive and die on it, “paints with these colors: sky blue, night black, blood red,” says The New York Times Book Review, “Nature has more—but none truer.” His stories are stripped down but bristle with life to offer a dusty, relentless landscape; the smell of freshly turned dirt; the blunt conversations about work that needs doing; and the rare, quiet moment of reflection that amounts to nothing less than poetry.