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Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the Old West volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope in romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boarding house in order to support herself. Despite her desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local sheriff with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life. It seems like such a simple arrangement: Patience needs someone with a strong back...
Author
Series
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Language
English
Description
"This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers here approaches the Shakespearean. Tol Proudfoot...
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