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On swift horses : a novel / Shannon Pufahl.

Pufahl, Shannon, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780525538110
  • ISBN: 0525538119
  • Physical Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2019]

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"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

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Subject: Married women > Fiction.
Gay men > Fiction.
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United States > History > 1953-1961 > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at GRPL.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main Fiction Pufahl (Text) 31307024103907 Fiction Available -
Van Belkum Fiction Pufahl (Text) 31307024103899 Fiction Available -
Westside Fiction Pufahl (Text) 31307024103881 Fiction Available -
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