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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... wall plaque . Gray granite from Silver Plume . Red granite from Platte Canyon . Sandstone from Manitou . The walls were inlaid with copper , steel , and various native rocks . Bena used the hem of her dress to rub the dust from a stone ...
... wall plaque . Gray granite from Silver Plume . Red granite from Platte Canyon . Sandstone from Manitou . The walls were inlaid with copper , steel , and various native rocks . Bena used the hem of her dress to rub the dust from a stone ...
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... walls , rusted rakes and spades , odd pieces of metal such as a bicycle frame and a big , smooth ship's cleat . There was a table with three chairs , and against the back wall an army cot that looked as though it hadn't been slept in ...
... walls , rusted rakes and spades , odd pieces of metal such as a bicycle frame and a big , smooth ship's cleat . There was a table with three chairs , and against the back wall an army cot that looked as though it hadn't been slept in ...
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... walls picked up and batted around . " I'd think it would be more accurate to say she fancied herself a painter . " " Any specialties ? " Bena hoped to keep him talking and relocate the part of him she thought of as ... wall of -285 .
... walls picked up and batted around . " I'd think it would be more accurate to say she fancied herself a painter . " " Any specialties ? " Bena hoped to keep him talking and relocate the part of him she thought of as ... wall of -285 .
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THE STOLEN PILLBOX | 1 |
BUFFALO MASS SUICIDE | 26 |
THE WEDDING TENT | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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