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The King of Cups
James Quina
其他書名
A Novel
出版Xlibris Corporation, 2005-10-26
主題Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN14628208919781462820894
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uioH6h8T-f8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋New Orleans. 1905. Yellow Fever! With the death of their parents, sixteen-year old Marty Mckinstry and his brother and sister.are sent to separate homes. As Marty fights to reunite his family, they endure abusive orphanages, a voodoo baptism, bare-knuckle prize fighting, forced snake handling, and death threats from a powerful shipping magnate, Reginald Landus. When Marty meets and falls in love with a ranchers daughter, Celeste Byrd, her rejected suitor, Gavin York, follows them to New Orleans, vowing to kill them. The novel explores the depth of family love, as well as the love between a man and a woman