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On swift horses / Shannon Pufahl.

Pufahl, Shannon, (author.).

Summary:

"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another." -- Amazon

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525538110
  • ISBN: 0525538119
  • Physical Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Subject: Married women > Fiction.
Gay men > Fiction.
Horse racing > Fiction.
United States > History > 1953-1961 > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Monroe County Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Pocono Mountain Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Pocono Mountain Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Pocono Mountain Public Library F Puf (Text) 35540000059645 PMPL 2nd Floor Fiction Available -

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