The Resource On swift horses, Shannon Pufahl
On swift horses, Shannon Pufahl
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The item On swift horses, Shannon Pufahl represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Set in 1950's America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: 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. Julius has found himself in Las Vegas, where his gift for gambling leads him to a job patrolling the boards above the casino tables, watching through the cigarette smoke for chancers and cheats. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist and a man who shares Julius's passions, and his secrets. As tourists gather on roof tops to watch atomic clouds bloom in the desert, Henry and Julius's love burns in the shadows - until one night Henry is forced to flee
- Language
- eng
- Label
- On swift horses
- Title
- On swift horses
- Statement of responsibility
- Shannon Pufahl
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Set in 1950's America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: 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. Julius has found himself in Las Vegas, where his gift for gambling leads him to a job patrolling the boards above the casino tables, watching through the cigarette smoke for chancers and cheats. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist and a man who shares Julius's passions, and his secrets. As tourists gather on roof tops to watch atomic clouds bloom in the desert, Henry and Julius's love burns in the shadows - until one night Henry is forced to flee
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pufahl, Shannon
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Married women
- Gay men
- Wives
- Gambling
- Waitresses
- Man-woman relationships
- Horse racing
- West (U.S.)
- United States
- West (U.S.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- On swift horses, Shannon Pufahl
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066075880
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780008293970
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1027826537
- Label
- On swift horses, Shannon Pufahl
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066075880
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780008293970
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1027826537
Subject
- Horse racing -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Fiction
- Waitresses -- Fiction
- Gambling -- Fiction
- West (U.S.) -- Historyy1945- -- Fiction
- Wives -- Fiction
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Gay men -- Fiction
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