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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Set in 1950s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack. When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee. Instead it is Lees brother, Julius, a thief and Korean War veteran and someone she has only met once whom she longs to tell, and who has struck a spark of promise and possibility inside her quietly ordered life. Julius has found himself in Las Vegas, where his gift for gambling leads him to a job patrolling the boards above the casino tables, watching through the cigarette smoke for chancers and cheats. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist and a man who shares Juliuss passions, and his secrets. As tourists gather on roof tops to watch atomic clouds bloom in the desert, Henry and Julius's love burns in the shadows until one night Henry is forced to flee. Through the parks and plazas of Tijuana and the bars and beaches of San Diego, On Swift Horses mesmerisingly charts the journeys of Muriel and Julius on their separate quests for freedom, new horizons and love. Set in 1950s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780008294007
Descrizione libro Soft Cover. Condizione: new. Codice articolo 9780008294007
Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG. Codice articolo 9780008294007
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.79 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo __0008294003
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 6666-HCL-9780008294007
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 6666-GRD-9780008294007