Mountains Like Blue Herons

These stories range from fantasy to hard reality, from magic to the doctrine of human endeavor that escapes the box of reason. He has set out in these stories to try the imagination of the reader. A closer look at the text will disclose a varied rhythm of structure and a bold use of the English language. These stories also reveal about Miller's writing the close attention to details of human behavior and almost surreptitious insight into motivation. For they are the unusual conceptions of a brilliant literary mind steeped in the ways of ordinary people's lives.