Brown-Eyed Girl

Brown-Eyed Girl
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Mustang Sally Series, Book 1

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2011

نویسنده

Virginia Swift

ناشر

Harper

شابک

9780062133533
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Publisher's Weekly

April 3, 2000
As much a mainstream story of two gutsy Wyoming women as it is a mystery, Swift's first novel captivates. Meg Dunwoodie, a newspaperwoman well known for her tough, incisive political reporting, returned to her native Wyoming from Europe just as WWII broke out and never left home again. Like Emily Dickinson, she became famous for her poetry only after her death. Now her estate has endowed a chair in American women's history at the University of Wyoming. History professor Sally Alder is appointed to the professorship on the condition that she live in Meg's house in Laramie and write the poet's biography. Sally, who was locally famous as a "hell-raising" bar singer 20 years earlier and is struggling with changes in her life, returns to Wyoming to begin to uncover the truth about Meg's past. But someone keeps breaking into the house, perhaps to look for the cache of Krugerrands that are the stuff of local legend. Unknown parties paint Sally's car with swastikas, while strangers in camouflage gear descend on the town during a blizzard. Skinheads, neo-Nazis, professors, lawmen, barmaids and others with secrets of their own converge as Sally unravels Meg's story, discovering why the woman buried herself in smalltown America after living the life of a European sophisticate. Swift develops her engaging tale gracefully, with a real feel for the atmosphere of its Wyoming setting. Agent, Elaine Koster.



Library Journal

April 1, 2000
Forty-five-year-old Sally Alder (a.k.a. Mustang Sally, country singer), Ph.D., has just been appointed to a distinguished professorship in women's history at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. As she begins sorting through the archives of the secretive Margaret Dunwoodie, Wyoming's most distinguished poet, she digs up questions that span most of the 20th century. How did Margaret amass a fortune? Why are skinheads breaking into Margaret's historic house and trashing Sally's car? Sally uncovers an amazing range of clues, including uncut diamonds, French Resistance fighters, and secret assassination plots--all the while contending with a militia run by a reactionary millionaire, sleazebags, good old boys, and antifeminist faculty. The delightfully heterogeneous cast of characters includes ex-doper Sheriff Dickie Langham, formidable housekeeper extraordinaire Maude Stark, and ponytailed geology professor Hawk Green, once Sally's lover. This witty, warm, engrossing first novel is highly recommended for larger fiction and mystery collections.--Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, OR

Copyright 2000 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



Library Journal

March 15, 2000
Forty-five-year-old Sally Alder (a.k.a. Mustang Sally, country singer), Ph.D., has just been appointed to a distinguished professorship in women's history at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. As she begins sorting through the archives of the secretive Margaret Dunwoodie, Wyoming's most distinguished poet, she digs up questions that span most of the 20th century. How did Margaret amass a fortune? Why are skinheads breaking into Margaret's historic house and trashing Sally's car? Sally uncovers an amazing range of clues, including uncut diamonds, French Resistance fighters, and secret assassination plots--all the while contending with a militia run by a reactionary millionaire, sleazebags, good old boys, and antifeminist faculty. The delightfully heterogeneous cast of characters includes ex-doper Sheriff Dickie Langham, formidable housekeeper extraordinaire Maude Stark, and ponytailed geology professor Hawk Green, once Sally's lover. This witty, warm, engrossing first novel is highly recommended for larger fiction and mystery collections.--Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, OR

Copyright 2000 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.




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