Evan S. Connell

“Just across from Bismarck stood Fort Lincoln where friends and relatives of Custer’s dead cavalrymen still lived, and these emigrating Sioux could…

— Evan S. Connell

“You’re not as cold as you pretend to be,’ she said. ‘I think your doors open in different places, that’s all. Most…

— Evan S. Connell

“Captain Jack, that volatile Modoc, seems to have been handled still more causally. After being hanged and buried, Jack was exhumed, embalmed,…

— Evan S. Connell

“ She was not certain what she wanted from life, or what to expect from it, for she had seen so little…

— Evan S. Connell

“Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.”

— Evan S. Connell

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a…

— Evan S. Connell

“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness,…

— Evan S. Connell