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Power in the Blood.
by Greg Matthews
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060179694
- ISBN 13
- 9780060179694
- Seller
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About This Item
Harper Collins, 1993. First edition, Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very good. Dustjacket in clear slipcover. Stamped on top edge & endpage. No marks in text. Lightly aged pages. From Publishers Weekly: Matthews here confirms the storytelling gifts and knowledge of the bad, lawless Old West that he demonstrated in Heart of the Country . This is a spellbinding, tragicomic, rip-snorting and deeply moving novel about three sibling orphans who are wrenchingly separated in 1869 and are accidentally, joyfully--but briefly--reunited 16 years later in Colorado. The trio--Clay, Zoe and Drew Dugan--board a westward-bound "orphan train" in upstate New York and disembark to meet foster parents in three different states. Clay later kills the farmhands who murder his kind foster parents and becomes a sheriff, then a bounty hunter. Zoe, brutally raped by her foster father, a strict farmer, gives birth to Omie, born with a strange blue birthmark across her face. Omie's paranormal powers--she can foresee events, read minds, teleport objects and converse with spirits--will protect Zoe in her loveless marriage to Colorado mining magnate Leo Brannan, a politically ambitious monster who ditches Zoe for a gold-digging prostitute and who hires a transvestite assassin to deprive Zoe of her share of their fortune. Drew runs away from his foster father, a religious fanatic, is rescued by Apaches, and becomes a whorehouse attendant, then a bank robber. The siblings' reunion leads to a bizarre train robbery, part of Zoe's revenge on Leo. Despite too many improbable coincidences and recurring episodes of lurid melodrama, this gripping story provides compelling commentary on blind ambition, murder, sex, euthanasia, true grit, the vagaries of fate and the self-destructiveness at the heart of America. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Seller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 05624
- Title
- Power in the Blood.
- Author
- Greg Matthews
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, Ex-Library
- ISBN 10
- 0060179694
- ISBN 13
- 9780060179694
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- N . Y.
- Date Published
- 1993
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