The maid's version / Daniel Woodrell.
Material type:
TextSeries: UlverscroftPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, 2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 200 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444820775 (pbk.)Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Families -- Ozark Mountains -- Fiction | Mountain life -- Fiction | Explosions -- Ozark Mountains -- Fiction | Ozark Mountains -- Social conditions -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books. Summary: In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it just have been a colossal accident? Alma Dunahew, whose scandalous younger sister was among the dead, believes she knows the answer - and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. But no one will listen to a maid from the wrong side of the tracks. It is only decades later that her grandson hears her account and unearths the truth...
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111052655725 |
In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it just have been a colossal accident? Alma Dunahew, whose scandalous younger sister was among the dead, believes she knows the answer - and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. But no one will listen to a maid from the wrong side of the tracks. It is only decades later that her grandson hears her account and unearths the truth...
There are no comments on this title.