The long night of Winchell Dear : a novel
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New York : Shaye Areheart Books, ©2006., New York : Shaye Areheart Books, [2006].
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First edition.
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158 pages ; 22 cm.
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Alamosa Public Library - FICTION | FICTION WAL | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Shaye Areheart Books, ©2006., New York : Shaye Areheart Books, [2006].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way. He has gassed and oiled the Cadillac and adjusts the pistol in his right boot, then plays one of the six fiddle tunes he knows, thinking back to his good days with Lucinda Miller. Alone, he waits in his remote ranch house, while, just outside, an acquaintance named Luther hunts, unblinking and of nervous temperament and moving through yellow primrose bending in the night wind. In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dears ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by a campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving along the ridge of Guapa Mountain an hour ago, thinking about the gamblers housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned far from civilization and what undefined presence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and begins to run across the desert floor. And boring toward all of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from Los Angeles on a mission theyve been given, they are professionals, cool and implacable at the start, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they are passing through. Forty minutes from their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long night of Winchell Dear.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Waller, R. J. (2006). The long night of Winchell Dear: a novel (First edition.). Shaye Areheart Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waller, Robert James, 1939-. 2006. The Long Night of Winchell Dear: A Novel. Shaye Areheart Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waller, Robert James, 1939-. The Long Night of Winchell Dear: A Novel Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Waller, Robert James. The Long Night of Winchell Dear: A Novel First edition., Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.
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