A Killing in New Town - Softcover

Horsley, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963190962 ISBN 13: 9780963190963

Publisher: La Alameda Press, 1996

Synopsis

Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, nineteenth-century edge of the future. Fear, greed, and real estate turn the windmill into a hanging tree. Each train into this booming railroad town unloads a cargo of carpetbaggers, entrepreneurs, seekers, Civil War veterans, and strong, lonely women--like Eliza Pelham. Good mother, drunk and unfaithful wife, Eliza stands at this juncture of raw change and random justice, caught in a reality of callousness and redemption. As Eliza searches for her stolen children, she discovers three allies: an Irish saloon girl, an Apache man who reads Melville, and La Llorona, the weeping mother, fierce in a black dress, thousands of years old.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Published by La Alameda Press

Distributed by The University of New Mexico Press

From the Back Cover:

In this award-winning novel a nineteenth-century woman in the turbulent West searches for her stolen children but finds much more.

About this edition

• Publisher: La Alameda Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0963190962
• ISBN 13: 9780963190963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275