—Milwaukee Journal
“Beautifully written and funny.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“These are adventure stories that would make Hemingway jealous.”
—Arizona Republic
“Houston writes with a spareness perfectly matched to the perilous psychological and geographic wilderness through which her characters roam.”
—Miami Herald
“Houston’s stories are a joy to read. . . . Each story opens windows into new experiences, to reveal new ways of seeing.”
—Josephine Humphreys
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PAM HOUSTON
A Little More About Me
Contents May Have Shifted
Sight Hound
Waltzing the Cats
Copyright © 1992 by Pam Houston
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First published as a Norton paperback 2005, reissued 2019
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Houston, Pam.
Cowboys are my weakness : stories / Pam Houston.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-393-03077-6
I. Title.
PS3558.08725C68 1992
ISBN 978-0-393-35687-8 pbk.
ISBN 978-0-393-07753-7 (ebk.)
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