The Peach Stone (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Horgan
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1935 to 1941
- Setting: New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Cleotha “Clee” Powers, Jodey Powers, Buddy Powers, Arlene Latcher
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Communication, Alienation, Guilt, Accidents, Death or dying, Infants, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Life and death
- Locales: New Mexico
The Story
Using a point of view that shifts among the story's principal characters, Paul Horgan presents their inner experiences on a silent, four-hour automobile trip from their home near Hondo, New Mexico, to the town of Weed, New Mexico. Each character responds in some way to one or more of the other occupants of the car, as well as to the tragedy prompting the trip: the accidental death on the preceding day of the Powerses’ two-year-old daughter. While playing near the back fence of the family's small ranch house, where tumbleweeds had been collecting that Jodey had been...
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