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Chargement... On Swift Horses: A Novelpar Shannon Pufahl
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. It has been years since I have given a one star review - but this is the book. First, nothing happens in the book. The three main characters are a set of brothers and one of their wives. They drift aimlessly from chapter to chapter meeting dozens of characters for two pages or less (mostly in bars, casinos or on the streets) There is lots of vague circuitous dialogue the leads to almost always nothing of consequence. They shouldn't waste their breath. Page after page of walking and meaningless conversation. (I would have loved a car accident.) The principle horse in the novel is even that swift. A waste of time and paper. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another." -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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