Paint the Wind - Hardcover

Spellman, Cathy Cash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385295375 ISBN 13: 9780385295376

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1990

Synopsis

Left orphaned and homeless by the Civil War, young Fancy Deverell embarks on a journey westward across America, an odyssey that takes her into the heart of the Old West and encounters with three determined men

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About the Author

Best-selling author, Cathy Cash Spellman has written five books that have been New York Times and International Best Sellers in hardcover and paperback. Her books include: · Lark’s Labyrinth · Snowflake from the Hand of God · So Many Partings · An Excess of Love · Paint the Wind · Bless the Child · The Playground of the Gods They’ve been sold in 22 countries, and Bless the Child, starring Kim Basinger and Jimmy Smits, was a successful Paramount movie in 2000. Cathy is an Astrologer and has written extensively about esoteric subjects from metaphysics to healing and mysticism. She has both practiced and written about a wide variety of healing modalities, including Cranio Sacral Therapy, Polarity, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine, Qi Gung, Native American Shamanic Healing, and Spiritual Healing. She holds Black Belt rank in Goju Ryu Karate and teaches both Women’s Empowerment and Energy (Qi) Workshops. She has been a monthly columnist for Mode and Grace Magazines, Sweet16.com and Astromessenger.com. She has written for Mademoiselle, Self, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Town and Country, and Kung Fu magazines on health, energy, beauty, sexuality, woman’s empowerment and many other topics. Cathy invites you to visit her website at www.cathycashspellman.com

From Publishers Weekly

A plot teeming with outsize characters and melodramatic incident propels this gaudy Western extravaganza that sweeps from a Louisiana plantation during the Civil War to a wide-open Colorado mining town. Lovely, headstrong Fancy Deverell is saved from marauding Yankees by Atticus, a wise old slave whose offensive shuffling is a hint of stereotypes to come--a hissing Chinaman, a whore with a heart of gold, a laconic gunslinger. Young Fancy is next befriended by a mystic and an irritating Shakespeare-quoting dwarf from a traveling circus. Then Atticus dies out West and Fancy is found half-frozen by Hart and Chance McAllister, brothers searching for a legendary silver lode. Fancy strikes it rich as an actress and as mistress of powerful Jason Madigan; gambling Chance, whom she loves, and Hart, who loves her, cash in, too. Spellman ( An Excess of Love ) uneasily blends New Age mysticism with the roaring Wild West of saloons, whorehouses and noble Indians in a vibrantly colored yarn that is good entertainment, if inaccurate. Doubleday Book Club main selection; Literary Guild alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385295375
• ISBN 13: 9780385295376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 713