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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... didn't ensure that a rattler wouldn't sink its teeth into the inviting apple of their biceps . You could buy a specially marked variant of liquor called Snake Bite , which guaranteed a man had died fetching the bottle from its hiding ...
... didn't ensure that a rattler wouldn't sink its teeth into the inviting apple of their biceps . You could buy a specially marked variant of liquor called Snake Bite , which guaranteed a man had died fetching the bottle from its hiding ...
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... didn't want her to turn it into something conveniently vast and tragic that she could fret about all afternoon because she didn't have friends or lunch dates and hadn't made much effort to that end . He made Bena promise again not to ...
... didn't want her to turn it into something conveniently vast and tragic that she could fret about all afternoon because she didn't have friends or lunch dates and hadn't made much effort to that end . He made Bena promise again not to ...
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... didn't want to be a lawyer , I didn't want to be a doctor or a businessman . I wanted to be a rancher . So he said , Fine , fine , son , I'll find you some work with Sandy McCullough for the holiday . But I'll make you a deal . If you ...
... didn't want to be a lawyer , I didn't want to be a doctor or a businessman . I wanted to be a rancher . So he said , Fine , fine , son , I'll find you some work with Sandy McCullough for the holiday . But I'll make you a deal . If you ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
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