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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... living near the gov- ernment horse stables in Vienna . Bena had also covered the ceremonial ribbon - cutting at the defunct Arapaho Tractor Factory . The factory had been converted into a mat- tress assembly plant , employing one ...
... living near the gov- ernment horse stables in Vienna . Bena had also covered the ceremonial ribbon - cutting at the defunct Arapaho Tractor Factory . The factory had been converted into a mat- tress assembly plant , employing one ...
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... living room with a deer gun and I imagined I was looking at a white mole . A white mole that was stuck in a tree , the branches bouncing madly around him as he struggled to free himself . It was quite marvelous to think of it that way ...
... living room with a deer gun and I imagined I was looking at a white mole . A white mole that was stuck in a tree , the branches bouncing madly around him as he struggled to free himself . It was quite marvelous to think of it that way ...
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... living room rafter . But there was none of the excite- ment he had conveyed when he showed her around Cuerna Verde the first time , when he'd told her about the clumsy love in the icehouse and the untimely impaling of a rich man's son ...
... living room rafter . But there was none of the excite- ment he had conveyed when he showed her around Cuerna Verde the first time , when he'd told her about the clumsy love in the icehouse and the untimely impaling of a rich man's son ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
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