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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... road . There was a snap of cartilage , of glass . The crow hung for a second , pressed against the windshield by the car's momentum , then tumbled over the roof and onto the road . Bena watched in the rearview mirror as it spun into the ...
... road . There was a snap of cartilage , of glass . The crow hung for a second , pressed against the windshield by the car's momentum , then tumbled over the roof and onto the road . Bena watched in the rearview mirror as it spun into the ...
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... road cut through . Holes in the road the size of horses ' skulls forced Ted to swerve abruptly from left to right and back . The road continued along the floor of the shallow canyon . Ted took a fast curve and had to slam on the brakes ...
... road cut through . Holes in the road the size of horses ' skulls forced Ted to swerve abruptly from left to right and back . The road continued along the floor of the shallow canyon . Ted took a fast curve and had to slam on the brakes ...
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... road began to slope upward . She passed the feed store in the center of Crow Junction . The halfwit was outside ... Road . Bena squinted through the trees to the right . The barn loomed up by the roadside . It sagged , massive and ...
... road began to slope upward . She passed the feed store in the center of Crow Junction . The halfwit was outside ... Road . Bena squinted through the trees to the right . The barn loomed up by the roadside . It sagged , massive and ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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