![]() ![]() ![]() While it keeps alive the sense of lawlessness and. For many years she worked as a freelance. On Swift Horses, Shannon Pufahl’s debut novel, shows that there’s much more to the Western experience than we’ve been led to believe. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions for another. She teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Meanwhile, the description says: "Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. "And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk." "She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's 19th birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined," the description adds. "Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego," as the limits of her new life seem to be closing in, it says. ![]() "A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West," that description says. ![]()
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