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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... pointed to his fat , stale self . " I ain't exactly the type of guy they like up there . " " But what is it ? " " Some rich - people getaway in the Rockies . The mountain's named after a Ute chief who was killed there during a battle ...
... pointed to his fat , stale self . " I ain't exactly the type of guy they like up there . " " But what is it ? " " Some rich - people getaway in the Rockies . The mountain's named after a Ute chief who was killed there during a battle ...
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... pointed through the cottonwoods to a house with a steeply pitched roof and Alpine eave carvings . The house was gnarled and fanciful around the rain gutters . " That's my family's old house . My mother had just returned from a trip ...
... pointed through the cottonwoods to a house with a steeply pitched roof and Alpine eave carvings . The house was gnarled and fanciful around the rain gutters . " That's my family's old house . My mother had just returned from a trip ...
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... pointed out to Bena through the trees , the roof just beginning its fanciful curl skyward . The woman had Red's burdened demeanor that compacted her body , making her spine curve toward the earth . Her chin dropped into the collar of ...
... pointed out to Bena through the trees , the roof just beginning its fanciful curl skyward . The woman had Red's burdened demeanor that compacted her body , making her spine curve toward the earth . Her chin dropped into the collar of ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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