Night of the Luminarias [signed] [first edition]

Set beneath the limitless desert sky of West Texas, this collection of short stories is peopled with passionate misfits, intense suicides, existential survivors who mus somehow cope with the darkness. But it is a darkness occasionally illuminated by the faint candle glow of luminaries or by flashes of insight, and in Pat Carr's clean, sparse, poetic prose, the characters ultimately achieve both dignity and a glimmer of hope. --- from book's back cover