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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... town of 200 residents , missed the chance to earn a permanent place on the map yesterday when a deputy sheriff's ... town is . . . " " I'm not looking for the way out of town . " She took a left into a driveway that led them around ...
... town of 200 residents , missed the chance to earn a permanent place on the map yesterday when a deputy sheriff's ... town is . . . " " I'm not looking for the way out of town . " She took a left into a driveway that led them around ...
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... town . It stared at her , milky and impassive , a big dead cow's eye with all the wildness gone . From this height she could see the black praying mantis of the ironworks on the far edge of town . The earth was broken there , revealing ...
... town . It stared at her , milky and impassive , a big dead cow's eye with all the wildness gone . From this height she could see the black praying mantis of the ironworks on the far edge of town . The earth was broken there , revealing ...
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... town still had the raw , crude appearance of a frontier settlement , all angles and function . It was odd to her that no architect had turned his face . west and found craggy , vertical inspiration in the mountains that lurched up from ...
... town still had the raw , crude appearance of a frontier settlement , all angles and function . It was odd to her that no architect had turned his face . west and found craggy , vertical inspiration in the mountains that lurched up from ...
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
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