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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
Sin killer : a novel
ISBN:
9780743233026

9780739427699

9780743451413

9780743525114
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2002.
Physical Description:
300 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Series title(s):
Number in series:
BK. 1.
General Note:
Maps on endpapers.
Contents:
A fish at dusk -- A block of offspring -- A doe's liver, quickly eaten -- The swamp of the swans -- Rain spittings and a slap -- The river sticks -- A bad hand in a crowd -- Three wild chieftains -- Red nations in turmoil -- The captain heaves a sigh -- A squab and a squash -- Twenty-two pigeons raining down -- Call of the tundra swans -- End of a heavy eater -- The only French -- A funeral in the morning -- Frailties of artists -- The lost stroke -- The maid takes a swim -- An eaglet tamed -- Difficulties with scissors -- A modest bosom, a buffalo -- Tongue, liver, sweetbreads, haunch, and saddle -- The swans again -- A hunting seat abandoned -- A cellist overboard -- A nip of grog-two nips -- A proposal considered -- A hitching smoothly accomplished -- A meadowlark speaks out of turn -- The doeskin shirt -- A cold night -- A black-clad figure -- A comppany of fiends -- A master of his trade -- A long mane of shining hair -- In the skull lodge -- A question of sensibility -- Fraulein will not be soothed -- A union assailed -- Parlous state of the stores -- An accidental elevation -- A stable boy flogged -- Sinews for a bow -- A burial -- The trader is late -- In a turmoil of spirit -- An old lord undeterred -- The world disappeared -- A fading light -- Six hundred pounds of wives -- Rifle and kit abandoned -- A valet missed -- Frostbite and its cure -- A distressing litter, soon removed -- Wolf tracks and a buffalo -- A grave not needed -- Conjugal occupations -- The ice is unforgiving -- A dark woman visits the Sans Arc.
Summary:
"It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her brother."--Jacket.
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