Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

Houston, Pam

ISBN 10: 0393030776 / ISBN 13: 9780393030778

Published by W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1992

About this Item

First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed and dated by the author on the title page: "Pam Houston / 1/28/92." The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; dust-spotting to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $19.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 002120

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Presents twelve stories featuring smart philosophical women in love and wild cowboys in search of adventure

About the Author:

Pam Houston was born in New Jersey and graduated from Denison University in 1983. Her collection of stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, was the 1993 winner of the Western States Book Award, and now appears in eight languages. "How to Talk to a Hunter" was selected for Best American Short Stories 1990. Houston is the editor of the anthology Women on Hunting and wrote the text for a book of photographs called Men Before Ten A.M. She has been a contributing editor at Elle and Ski, now writes regularly for Condé Nast Sports for Women, and teaches creative writing at workshops across the country. Formerly a hunting guide and river guide, she lives at 9,000 feet near the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado.