![]() ![]() Specializing in Mystery Fiction and all its subgenres, including Detective, Crime, Hardboiled, Thrillers. On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything. The Worlds Oldest Mystery Fiction Specialty Store. 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. ![]() 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. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. He’s just been discharged from the Navy and dreams of buying a piece of land in a part of California that is just being developed. She lives in San Diego with her husband, Lee. 5, 2019 A first-time novelist explores desire and identity in the mid-20th century. 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. ON SWIFT HORSES by Shannon Pufahl RELEASE DATE: Nov. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. ![]() A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. ![]()
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