FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 2001
Copyright © 2000 by Barry Holstun Lopez
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2000.
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The author would like to thank the editors of the following publications, in which some of these stories originally appeared: American Short Fiction (“Remembering Orchards” and “Thomas Lowdermilk’s Generosity”); The Georgia Review (“The Letters of Heaven” and “The Mappist”); The Gettysburg Review (“Mornings in Quarain”); Manoa (“In the Garden of the Lords of War,” “Rubén Mendoza Vega,” and “In the Great Bend of the Souris River”); San Francisco Magazine (“Emory Bear Hands’ Birds”); and Story (“The Deaf Girl”). “Stolen Horses” first appeared in Writers Harvest 3, edited by Tobias Wolff and William Spruill.
The author also would like to express his gratitude to the Lannan Foundation for a residency fellowship that allowed him to complete work on this book.
Excerpt from “Apology for Bad Dreams” from Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers, copyright © 1925 and renewed 1953 by Robinson Jeffers, is reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Lopez, Barry Holstun, [date]
Light action in the Caribbean : stories / Barry Lopez.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PS3562.067 L5 2000
813’.54—dc21 00-020310
eISBN: 978-0-307-80651-2
Author photograph © Nancy Crampton
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