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Chargement... The Undertaker's Wife (édition 2010)par Loren D. Estleman (Auteur)
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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. Just a good story--nothing more, but nothing less--more about the undertaker than his wife, despite the title. It follows his career, from his apprenticeship with his father in Monroe, Michigan, through Civil War service, a failed attempt to challenge the corruption in San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is completed, then a partnership in Fort Hays, Kansas (again with a corrupt sheriff in control) as the railroad is arriving, another partnership briefly in Virginia City, Montana, a stint teaching mortuary science in Chicago, another brief venture in St. Louis before ending his career in Buffalo as a nationally known undertaker. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds. The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every hazard in a raw West---these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier, which erupts with life and death, he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead. She is devoted to making her marriage whole, in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it and, most especially, in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center. Today the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama, for only his art can save America's financial markets. Her task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. In the end, it is the undertaker's wife who, through love, is able to transcend death. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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