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On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of “the only woman he’s ever been fond of” when his wife dies during childbirth with the couple’s fourth boy, Karel. From an early age Karel proves so talented on horseback that his father enlists him to ride in... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Karel Skala: Add a description of this character.
- Raymond Knedlik
- Sophie
- Thom
- Joe
- Stan
- Patrick Dalton
- Graciela
- Vaclav Skala
- Guillermo Villaseñor
- Hacek
- Klara
- Edna
- Eddie
- Henry Kaspar
- Judith
- Gonzales
- Diane
- Lad Dvorak
- Moulton
- Mrs. Vrana
- Evie
- Eduard
- Novotny
- Father Carew
- Adam
- Mary
Quotes edit
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“"If they proved to be filching from him, Karel reckoned he'd have to give them what they must somehow have craved and render them as impermanent in the world as if he had taken them briefly into his lungs only to exhale them through his nose and mouth and watch as they whirled away and flew apart in the breeze until they were of no more consequence than a dry throat and the remaining trace of a pleasantly bitter taste on his tongue."”
Karel Scala
First Sentence edit
The blood had come hard from her, so much of it that, when Vaclav Scaka awoke in wet linens to find her curled up against him on her side, moaning and glazed with sweat, rosary beads twisted around her clenched fingers, he smiled at the thought that she'd finally broken her water.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Rainy Day Books (Staff Picks for 2010). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bruce Machart (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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