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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... hand . “ Fran is a sly quiff , " the letters gnarled and hasty . She looked at him , this man who kept the secrets of a prostitute and of who knew how many other people locked between his ribs . With one long breath he inhaled his ...
... hand . “ Fran is a sly quiff , " the letters gnarled and hasty . She looked at him , this man who kept the secrets of a prostitute and of who knew how many other people locked between his ribs . With one long breath he inhaled his ...
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... hand . Bena liked that he treated his maimed hand as if it were full - fingered , so unlike people who hid their defor- mities in pockets and behind backs , people who would rather shake with the wrong hand than offer a stranger one ...
... hand . Bena liked that he treated his maimed hand as if it were full - fingered , so unlike people who hid their defor- mities in pockets and behind backs , people who would rather shake with the wrong hand than offer a stranger one ...
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... hand , he let Betty drink , then did the same himself , tipping his hands until the water ran over his jaw , soaking his collar . He dipped his hand in the bucket one last time and raised it high to Bena . She crouched as low as she ...
... hand , he let Betty drink , then did the same himself , tipping his hands until the water ran over his jaw , soaking his collar . He dipped his hand in the bucket one last time and raised it high to Bena . She crouched as low as she ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
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