The Mineral PalaceG.P. Putman's Sons, 2000 - 325 Seiten "To distract herself, Bena accepts a part-time position as a society reporter for the local paper, following the activities of the town's elite club women - women such as Reimer Lee Jackson, with her plans to restore a crumbling monument to the mining industry, the Mineral Palace, to its former grandeur. Soon Bena finds herself drawn to the seamier side of Pueblo, to a run-down saloon, where she befriends Red Grissom, a taciturn rancher, and to the lurid halls of a rooming house, where she encounters a pregnant prostitute, Maude Hewitt. The question of the unborn baby's paternity leads Bena to uncover not only the sexual corruption on which an entire town is founded, but also the lies that enclose her own marriage and her role as mother. As the two women's lives converge, in ways that shock, Bena is compelled to return to the decaying architecture of the Mineral Palace. |
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... blood and gun oil . Bena had covered it with a clean kitchen apron , whose faint recollec- tions of roast beef and molasses seemed homey imperfections more suitable for an infant . Theodore Gaspar Jonssen , Jr. , six pounds , two ounces ...
... blood and gun oil . Bena had covered it with a clean kitchen apron , whose faint recollec- tions of roast beef and molasses seemed homey imperfections more suitable for an infant . Theodore Gaspar Jonssen , Jr. , six pounds , two ounces ...
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... blood from Little Ted's cheek . He took her finger between his lips . She offered him a nipple , but he seemed happier feeding on the blood under her finger- nail . Ted studied the narrow road ahead . " We're not so far from the top ...
... blood from Little Ted's cheek . He took her finger between his lips . She offered him a nipple , but he seemed happier feeding on the blood under her finger- nail . Ted studied the narrow road ahead . " We're not so far from the top ...
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... blood . There was blood on the car upholstery , on the metal door handle . There was blood following her up the flagged path . She couldn't believe how much blood she had in her that was simply excess , not the stuff of life at all ...
... blood . There was blood on the car upholstery , on the metal door handle . There was blood following her up the flagged path . She couldn't believe how much blood she had in her that was simply excess , not the stuff of life at all ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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