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ISBN | 9780765326126 |
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Autor | Estleman Loren D. |
Vydavatel | St Martins Pr 3Pl |
Jazyk | english |
Vazba | Paperback |
From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes The Undertaker's Wife
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