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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... missing her , or the sound of his not missing her . Given the previous week's ominous headlines in the Chieftain- " Dust Pneumonia Diagnosed in Baca and Prower Counties " -Union Avenue was virtually unpopulated , save for the sporadic ...
... missing her , or the sound of his not missing her . Given the previous week's ominous headlines in the Chieftain- " Dust Pneumonia Diagnosed in Baca and Prower Counties " -Union Avenue was virtually unpopulated , save for the sporadic ...
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... missing . This " Red " Grissom was looking for arrowheads on his lunch break just a quarter- mile north when the incident had occurred . He claimed it was the most beautiful act of nature he'd ever witnessed , these burly , wingless ...
... missing . This " Red " Grissom was looking for arrowheads on his lunch break just a quarter- mile north when the incident had occurred . He claimed it was the most beautiful act of nature he'd ever witnessed , these burly , wingless ...
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... missing leg . In Reimer's case , however , it seemed more a beautiful , if impractical , ac- cessory than a functional prosthesis . Bena concluded it was Reimer's way of transforming her affliction into an opportunity for adornment ...
... missing leg . In Reimer's case , however , it seemed more a beautiful , if impractical , ac- cessory than a functional prosthesis . Bena concluded it was Reimer's way of transforming her affliction into an opportunity for adornment ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
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