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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... called Buck's Silo ; the third slipped into the shadows of a side alley , where an unmarked door opened and received him . Bena paused in front of the Silver State Theater , where a scarecrow hung from a gallows provided by the empty ...
... called Buck's Silo ; the third slipped into the shadows of a side alley , where an unmarked door opened and received him . Bena paused in front of the Silver State Theater , where a scarecrow hung from a gallows provided by the empty ...
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... called " Who's Who in the City Federation of Women's Clubs . " She had passed a Tuesday afternoon listening to a talk on Victorian hair jewelry by Luna Beck- Fril , and had covered a book - mending party at the Bent Elementary School ...
... called " Who's Who in the City Federation of Women's Clubs . " She had passed a Tuesday afternoon listening to a talk on Victorian hair jewelry by Luna Beck- Fril , and had covered a book - mending party at the Bent Elementary School ...
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... called , she told him Little Ted was sick and she needed to stay home . When Ham called , she told him she was feeling under the weather . Flu , she said . Too much fun , she explained to Reimer . Problems at home , she offered to Gerta ...
... called , she told him Little Ted was sick and she needed to stay home . When Ham called , she told him she was feeling under the weather . Flu , she said . Too much fun , she explained to Reimer . Problems at home , she offered to Gerta ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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