Аннотация:
Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of and , A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both.The year is 1910. Halley’s Comet has just signaled the end of the world, and Jack Johnson has knocked out the “Great White Hope,” Jim Jeffries. Keystone, West Virginia, is the region’s biggest boomtown, and on a rainy Sunday morning in August, its townspeople are gathered in a red-light district known as Cinder Bottom to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. Abe Baach and Goldie ...
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