"The Bride Wore Crimson," winner of the PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Journalism. Texas novelist and journalist Bryan Woolley has assembled another collection of true Texas stories to stand alongside his earlier collection, "The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories."
"Whether seeing the work first as an aesthetic object or as a gathering of stories, one soon notices the fine quality of intelligence and care that went into the processes of book making here. In several ways this volume is one of the special ones." (The Texas Observer)
"Woolley's stories remind me of nothing so much as the best Neil Simon . . . they're humorous, heartwarming, short and sincere, and they capture the best of Texas." (Books of the Southwest)
"Woolley's new collection of nineteen stories is superb. He has a rare gift of taste and a sense of line and proportions that renders truth; the style is uniform and elegant, . . . The stories pay their own way; one feels somehow better, more just, more balanced for having read them." (Texas Books in Review)
ISBN 0-87404-227-5, cloth, $27.50 ISBN 0-87404-228-3, paper $17.50
6x9, 193 pg.
To order, write: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0633---or use the Texas Western Press toll-free number (for ordering only): (800) 488-3789---or order by e-mail