When Joโs partner abandons her as soon as they arrive on Mars, itโs yet another reminder of what she has always known: the only person she can count on is herself.ย She is determined not to let his absence prevent her from claiming the one thing she has always wanted - a permanent home. Earth Gover
High Plains Tango
โ Scribed by Robert James Waller
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Shaye Areheart Books
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 030723830X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.
The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the small towns dying and the people with them, you can hear the wind. And on the back of the wind is the sound of an old accordion--tangos--mingling with the lonely thump of a single drum in the nighttime and a far-off warrior's cry. On the back of the wind is the smell of worn saddle leather and sawdust, of sandalwood, and smoke from ancient ceremonial fires. To this, to a town called Salamander, comes Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding...
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