Glorious - 9781410469915
Un libro in lingua di Jeff Guinn edito da Thorndike Pr, 2014
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New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872.
We've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He's always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: a wife, a career, property, standing.
But when tragedy strikes, all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. McLendon's instinct for survival kicks in; he flees Saint Louis, and Douglas assigns his enforcer, an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots, to track him down.
With nothing to lose, McLendon attempts to reconcile with an old flame--a woman he was nearly engaged to but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry-goods store out west, to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious, in the Arizona Territory. There, McLendon tries to win her back, and in the process discovers a new way of life at the edge of the final American frontier. But he can't outrun his past forever. . . .
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Glorious
- Sottotitolo: A Novel of the American West
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Jeff Guinn
- Editore: Thorndike Pr
- Collana: Thorndike Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Giugno '14
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Fortune hunters Fiction Gold mines and mining Fiction Large type books
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 139 x 25
- EAN-13: 9781410469915