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The maid's version : a novel / Daniel Woodrell.
By: Woodrell, Daniel
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013Edition: First Edition.Description: 164 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316205856; 0316205850.Subject(s): Family secrets -- Fiction | Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Missouri -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Alma, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid. Her husband is mostly absent, when in 1929, her younger sister is killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters? Gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals? Or is it an accident? Alma's pursuit of justice makes her an outcast in her small Missouri town.
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 813.54 W860 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003488475 |
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Alma, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid. Her husband is mostly absent, when in 1929, her younger sister is killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters? Gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals? Or is it an accident? Alma's pursuit of justice makes her an outcast in her small Missouri town.
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