Kent Nelson's Books

Kent Nelson's Books
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The Books and Stories of Writer Kent Nelson

Here is a partial list of the books of Kent Nelson, in reverse chronological order. If you see a title you'd like to add to your collection, just click on the link or the cover photo to purchase the item using this website's shopping cart (orders filled by Amazon.com). Some Kent Nelson books are out of print, and you'll see used book purchase options as well for those books -- just click on the used price to view and purchase a pre-owned book.

The Spirit Bird: Stories by Kent Nelson

Winner of the 2014 Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a fancy mountain town. Other protagonists yearn to cross a racial divide, keep developers from a local island, explore their sexuality, and mourn a lost loved one. The characters in this collection are compelled to seek beyond their own horizons, and as the stories unfold, the search becomes the expression of their desires. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we’ve lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don’t know about ourselves.