The Heart of a PeacockPaperback, 7 April 2005

In these 51 short stories, first published as a collection in 1953, Carr works through some of her favorite subjects, including her experiences with Native people at the turn of the twentieth century, her love for animals and birds, and the life of her mercurial monkey, Woo. Carr's economy of worlds and the deceptive simplicity of her structures re