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Chargement... Last Stand at Papago Wells (original 1957; édition 1986)par Louis L'Amour (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe puits de la dernière chance par Louis L'Amour (1957)
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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. x This was a pretty good historical fiction genre novel, telling a story of a group of civilians and soldiers trapped at a water source in the desert, with a group of Apache warriors penning them in and picking them off one by one. Much of this story is about the way the trapped people interact, rather than about gunfighting. The characters are pretty realistic, and while I dislike how they treat Jennifer, one of the trapped women, as if she is a parcel to be grabbed, rather than a person who has a say as to what man she marries and what sort of life she wants. She gets a lot of grief for wanting to move East and live in a town, abandoning ranching as something not for her, and the hero announces to her dad at the end that he is marrying her without her having ever actually accepted him, and without his having actually talked with her about it before. Still, the women in this book are pretty strong characters, and the men are not as annoyingly sexist as they could be, without really resulting in anachronistic gender-relations. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Fiction.
Western.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasnâ??t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren landâ?¦and just as inescapable. The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible for the lives of thirteen desperate strangers and a shipment of gold. But he knew that if they were to survive, he was their last chance. He also knew that some in the party were willing to dieâ??or killâ??to get their hands on the money. If he couldnâ??t get them to work together, it wouldnâ??t be the desert or even the Apaches that would do them inâ??it would be the greed of the very people h Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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