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Lädt ... The Stick Game (2000)von Peter Bowen
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Gehört zur ReiheGabriel Du Pre (7)
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that's poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise." Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are getting sick. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects the children's health defects and low test scores are connected to pollution from the nearby Persephone gold mine. Meanwhile, Du Pré investigates the disappearance of one of the afflicted children. When the boy turns up dead, the accordionist's theory gains credence. It wouldn't be the first time the rich men of Montana found wealth at the expense of the reservation's kids. But is there something more than greed and indifference at work? Something even more sinister? Du Pré will make it his business to find out. "In other hands, melodrama could easily rear its head and trample the scenery, but Bowen has a firm grip on his large cast of interesting players . . . [in this] tale of grace vs. greed" (Publishers Weekly). The Stick Game is the 7th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in an Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.92)
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Setting: present-day Montana
Series: #7
First Line: The night was warm for Montana.
At the Crow Fair in the town of Hardin, Gabe and Madelaine meet her cousin Jeanne, whose oldest son has disappeared, and he agrees to help find Danny. Soon thereafter a crippled accordion player asks Gabe to do something about the poisoned water that caused the accordion player's birth defects. Both investigations lead to a gold-mining operation that provides many local jobs.
This book would have most writers chewing up the scenery in large chunks of melodrama. Not Bowen. In other writers' hands, this light plot line and meandering narrative would completely fall apart. Not in Bowen's hands. He has a marvelous cast of characters, from Gabe and Madelaine down to folks like seventy-somethings Piney and Norris who have tried to kill each other so long they've forgotten what started it all, to the reservation police officers Joe and Harry who are forced to find humor in strange places so that they don't spend their shifts in tears. Bowen keeps a good grip on the reins, and this book becomes much greater than the sum of its parts--a quiet, believable, poignant and oftentimes humorous tale of grace versus greed. What most folks can't accomplish in a month's worth of environmental ranting, Bowen does by having Gabe pull out his fiddle and play "Billy Drank the Gold". (