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Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest de Frank Thurmond

Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest

Autor Frank Thurmond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2024 – vârsta ani
Thurmond’s novel follows a girl becoming a woman in pre-Civil War Kentucky, through a romantic involvement in Detroit, and then into adulthood as she becomes the notorious gambler, Lottie Deno, in postwar New Orleans, San Antonio, and points Southwest. Her business acumen and fearlessness bring opportunities. Her love life takes several turns, and her character matures in often colorful, surprising ways.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781624912047
ISBN-10: 1624912044
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
Colecția Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc

Notă biografică

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Frank Thurmond (a distant cousin of William Faulkner) earned English degrees at the University of Mississippi and Oxford University (UK). He teaches English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and, in the evenings, serenades his rescue dogs with wind instruments.

Extras

"My tale begins in Kentucky, on a large plantation near the small Ohio River port town of Warsaw in Gallatin County. I was born in 1844 on the twenty-first of April. (That makes me a proud Taurus, and I have always lived up to it.) They called me Charlotte J. Tompkins at birth, though I went by Carlotta and have sported quite a few different sobriquets in the years since. My parents were relatively well-to-do and owned (though I am now terribly ashamed to admit it) a large number of enslaved people. One of these plays an important part in my story: Her name was Mary Poindexter, a young woman who was assigned my nanny at birth and who would later become my closest friend and confidant—not to mention my protector on our many adventures together—in a friendship that would endure long after she finally obtained her free papers."

Textul de pe ultima copertă

A fictional re-creation of the life of Lottie Deno, a historical woman whose facility with playing cards, personal character, and beauty became legend in Texas after the Civil War.

Cuprins

Prologue:  The Quest…………………………………………………...1
PART I:    The Golden Boy………………………………………….....4
PART II:   The Angel of San Antonio………………………………...47
PART III:  Mystic Maud……………………………………………....92
PART IV:  “Lotta Dinero”…………………………………………...125
PART V:    Queen of the Pasteboards………………………………..145
PART VI:   Aunt Lottie……..………………………………………..205
Epilogue:   The Golden Gossip Club…………………………………221
 

Recenzii

“Set in Texas after the Civil War and based on real-life characters, Lottie Deno tells the story of an innocent young woman, Carlotta Tompkins, who becomes the notorious lady gambler, Lottie Deno. Carlotta drifts from town to town and saloon to saloon in search of her fugitive outlaw lover, Frank Thurmond (a relative of the author). Along the way, she meets up with Doc Holliday and gets herself kidnapped by desperados and kidnapped from the kidnappers by a band of Kiowa warriors.  It’s a rip-snortin’ tale of love and adventure in the Old West, and its spunky, intrepid heroine will remind you of Mattie Ross in True Grit. So, who will play Carlotta in the movie?”

“I loved this story. The descriptions of the land and places are amazing. I feel the journey while reading it. It is like poetry woven into the story.”

“Thurmond’s powerful novel inspires and excites in equal measure, telling the story of a young woman’s struggle to survive in the lawless post-Civil War South. Thurmond brings to life a brutal world populated by desperadoes like Doc Holliday, willing to stake everything on a throw of the dice; a country where death stalks the living around every corner.”

Descriere

Thurmond’s novel follows a girl becoming a woman in pre-Civil War Kentucky, through a romantic involvement in Detroit, and then into adulthood as she becomes the notorious gambler, Lottie Deno, in postwar New Orleans, San Antonio, and points Southwest. Her business acumen and fearlessness bring opportunities. Her love life takes several turns, and her character matures in often colorful, surprising ways.