Out of the Firebox - Softcover

Stephens, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1489583076 ISBN 13: 9781489583079

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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In Kingsville, Texas, in 1925, a boy runs through the outer yards leading to the roundhouse of his town's railroad center. He means only to get home fast so his mother won't be angry with him. By accident he witnesses a brutal murder and quickly runs to tell his father, setting off a series of events that change his whole family's life. The 1920's were not only the merry postwar years that signaled freedom for women when they finally attained the vote, but the insurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, big oil, and the importance of railroads in moving produce and merchandize around the country and to and from all the coasts. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the boy works in the same rail yards, and one day takes refuge from a tornado by climbing, with a railroad detective, into the firebox of the locomotive he has been working on. There he tells the detective what he had seen years before in the rail yards. The two work together to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Biografía del autor:

Judith Stephens grew up in the inter-mountain west and California, where she was educated at the University of California and San Francisco State University. Previous works are a number of short stories, a mystery (Borrowed Rites), and a short story/novel (Rancho Armadillo), and dozens of poems. Her next book to be released is The Criminal Pup, a book of children's short stories. Current projects are a novel of the Yukon and 1-3 novels about the Civil War.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1489583076
• ISBN 13: 9781489583079
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178