God's Dogs: A Novel in Stories - Hardcover

"God's Dogs pulls off impressively what seems, in practice, almost impossible to do well - a novel in stories. Fastidious, trenchant, spare and often eloquent, Mitch Wieland's stories have great breadth, powerful sympathies, and a renewing comprehension of our human selves which we only find in the best literature." - Richard Ford "Wieland's is a book bigger than its well-fit parts, a book that rouses and reaches for more than the expected, a book that gets our crooked kind right, a book that shakes the dickens out of the heart, a book that offers Big Answers to Big Questions." - Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once "Wieland writes with fearless wonder, a piercing sense of loss, and the resilient grace of humor." - Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts "One of our country's best magazine editors shows he's a keen creator of fine stories and makes characters out of sentences all of us should envy." - Alan Cheuse, book commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered"

MITCH WIELAND is the author of a novel, Willy Slater's Lane (SMU, 1996); his short fiction has been published in such venues as Southern Review, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Yale Review, Shenandoah, and Sewanee Review. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at Boise State University, where he is founding editor of the Idaho Review. He is the recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship and two literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.