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On Swift Horses
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| ISBN | 9780008293963 |
| EAN | 9780008293963 |
A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart.
Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack.
When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee.
Instead it is Lee’s brother, Julius, a thief and Korean War veteran – and someone she has only met once – whom she longs to tell, and who has struck a spark of promise and possibility inside her quietly ordered life.
Recenzja
‘A story so vivid, so hauntingly told, you can almost feel its complex, conflicted characters appearing in front of you as you read’ iNews
‘Shannon Pufahl’s debut novel is a taut work reminiscent of Eleanor Catton’s Booker winner The Luminaries and stylistically comparable to the best of Steinbeck’ Irish Times
‘Imagine a cross between Revolutionary Road and Battleborn (with a little bit of Brokeback Mountain thrown in) and you might end up with something akin to Pufahl's debut, a rich and rugged suburban western about dreams deferred and living defiantly’ Oprah Magazine
Szczegóły produktu
- Wydawca : Fourth Estate Ltd (14 listopada 2019)
- Twarda oprawa : 320 str.
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008293963
- Wymiary : 14.1 x 3 x 22.2 cm
