The Mineral Palace - Hardcover

Julavits, Heidi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399146229 ISBN 13: 9780399146220

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2000

Synopsis

While poverty and dust storms plague a Colorado mining town during the Depression, doctor's wife Bena Jonssen begins to unravel the sexual corruption lurking under the community's thin veneer of respectability. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Heidi Julavits has published short stories in Esquire (included in The Best American Short Stories 1999), Story, Zoetrope, McSweeny's, and was selected by the Voice Literary Supplement as a 1999 Writer-on-the-Verge.

From AudioFile:

When Bena, her husband, and baby move to Pueblo, Colorado, their trip begins a pattern of defeated dreams--from an encounter with the soon-to-be shot Bonnie and Clyde to the dusty, dying town in which they settle. Their struggles are met with futility. Suffocating in the despondency of the Depression, symbolized by the crumbling grandeur of the Palace, they live amid corruption and betrayal. Ericksen effectively captures Julavits's prose, her soft, silky voice caressing its stormy words. This performance gives us the full measure of a ruthless and compelling book. S.B.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0399146229
• ISBN 13: 9780399146220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 325