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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... mother , she decided , instead of socializing and courting shallow friends . During their second week in Pueblo , Bena had discovered a feed scale in the garage , behind a metal tractor seat and a torturous - looking hoe attachment ...
... mother , she decided , instead of socializing and courting shallow friends . During their second week in Pueblo , Bena had discovered a feed scale in the garage , behind a metal tractor seat and a torturous - looking hoe attachment ...
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... mother stayed home with us all day . ” Bena wondered what it would take for a woman to do a thing so cruel - people ... mother's capacity to burn a child like that . On the way to work Bena saw those scars each time she blinked ...
... mother stayed home with us all day . ” Bena wondered what it would take for a woman to do a thing so cruel - people ... mother's capacity to burn a child like that . On the way to work Bena saw those scars each time she blinked ...
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... mother in a housedress with a baby . The mother's hand is always over her face to shade herself from the shocking brightness of the outside world . Her hand is red and bitten from picking garden tomatoes . Bena saw herself walking ...
... mother in a housedress with a baby . The mother's hand is always over her face to shade herself from the shocking brightness of the outside world . Her hand is red and bitten from picking garden tomatoes . Bena saw herself walking ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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