The Undertaker's Wife
A Adult Fiction, Historical, Westerns book. #14 in the American West series.The American West series - The...
The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds.The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every hazard in a raw West---these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier, which erupts with life and death, he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead.She is devoted to making her marriage whole, in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it and, most especially, in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center.Today the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama, for only his art can save America's financial markets. Her task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication.In the end, it is the undertaker's wife who, through love, is able to transcend...
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- Pages: 284 pages
- ISBN: 9780765309136 / 765309130
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This may possible be the worst book I've ever read. I decided to stick with it and finish it, hoping it would get better, but it didn't. #14 in the American West series.The American West series - The Wild West claimed many lives; it was Richard Connable's job to bury the dead. From St. Louis to Denver to the Barbary Coast, we follow his story, told in fascinating technical and emotional detail by his wife Lucy. picked it out thinking of the time traveler's wife, but it was good, too!
