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A killing in New Town / Kate Horsley.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.O726 K55 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horsley, Kate, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Mexico--History--Fiction.
- New Mexico.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, N.M. : La Alameda Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, nineteenth-century edge of the future. Fear, greed, and real estate turn the windmill into a hanging tree. Each train into this booming railroad town unloads a cargo of carpetbaggers, entrepreneurs, seekers, Civil War veterans, and strong, lonely women--like Eliza Pelham. Good mother, drunk and unfaithful wife, Eliza stands at this juncture of raw change and random justice, caught in a reality of callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she discovers three allies: an Irish saloon girl, an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, the weeping mother, fierce in a black dress, thousands of years old.
- ISBN:
- 0963190962 :
- OCLC:
- 35732797
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