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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... night , day and night , until , exhausted , she begs the blacksmith down the road to cut her feet off at the ankles . He agrees , but only if he can cauterize the bones with his hot iron so that she may never grow feet again . She ...
... night , day and night , until , exhausted , she begs the blacksmith down the road to cut her feet off at the ankles . He agrees , but only if he can cauterize the bones with his hot iron so that she may never grow feet again . She ...
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... night . My dad promised to reimburse him for any losses to the herd that happened on my watch . " " How did you find this out ? " " People talk . And my dad liked for me to know he'd stop at noth- ing to get his way . My third night out ...
... night . My dad promised to reimburse him for any losses to the herd that happened on my watch . " " How did you find this out ? " " People talk . And my dad liked for me to know he'd stop at noth- ing to get his way . My third night out ...
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... night landscape beyond the sagging roofs of the shantytown . She was happy now to have the shoes : the ground was littered with glass shards , the sprouting coils of old mattresses , rusted nails , forlorn auto parts . She hurried along ...
... night landscape beyond the sagging roofs of the shantytown . She was happy now to have the shoes : the ground was littered with glass shards , the sprouting coils of old mattresses , rusted nails , forlorn auto parts . She hurried along ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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