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Informationen zum Autor Liz Stephens received her PhD in creative nonfiction. A winner of the Western Literature Association's Frederick Manfred Award and a finalist for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award, her work has been published in Fourth Genre, Brevity, Western American Literature, and South Dakota Review. Klappentext Liz Stephens received her PhD in creative nonfiction. A winner of the Western Literature Association¿s Frederick Manfred Award and a finalist for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award! her work has been published in Fourth Genre! Brevity! Western American Literature! and South Dakota Review. Zusammenfassung Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school! and her brief stint working on a Taco Bell commercial is not much in the way of preparation for taking on the real West. In The Days Are Gods Stephens chronicles a move that is far more than a shift in geographical coordinates. Inhaltsverzeichnis ProloguePart 1. Los AngelesHot AirSo Manifest It, ManPart 2. UtahUtah Looked Like ThisChecking FenceWaryAudell's Carpenter's and Builder's GuidePowwow at the Ball FieldWinterSuddenly, What You Do Is What You DoTable of ContentsProcessThe Magic TrickGroundworkGardeningThe History of Other PeopleSpringThe Box CStudent TeachingMemorial DayYokedPart 3. This Is the PlaceThat Bright SummerGusChicken LessonsHeavy Is the CrownThe Night Life around HereThe Windows of WellsvilleNotchesPart 4. The Memory CairnsHoneyThe LocalFinding OklahomaOh Country RoadsWednesday Night Lights across from the Stop-n-GoAvoiding Jackson HoleThe ReenactorsLots Four and Five, Range One West of the Salt Lake MeridianIn My DefenseVision upon VisionCowboy UpFounders' DayMonument to Belief, Middle of Nowhere, UtahPart 5. Culling SeasonShooting Stars Lit Up the YardAcknowledgments