The Mineral Palace

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G.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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THE STOLEN PILLBOX
1
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE
26
THE WEDDING TENT
45
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (2000)

Heidi Julavits is a founding editor of The Believer magazine. Her books include The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, The Mineral Palace, and The Folded Clock: A Diary. She received the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction.

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