Let the bastards freeze in the dark: A novel

Simmons, Diane

Wyndham Books

The second volume of the Legends series, focusing on more outstanding Quarter Horse stallions and mares. Chapter titles: Traveler; Old Joe Bailey; Gonzales Joe Bailey; Lucky Blanton; Peter McCue; Midnight; Midnight Jr; Grey Badger II; Skipper W; Oklahoma Star; Oklahoma Star Jr.; Driftwood; Jessie James; King's Pistol; My Texas Dandy; Clabber; Rocket Bar (TB); Lightning Bar; Sugar Bars; Moon Deck; Jet Deck; Lena's Bar; Easy Jet; Author Profiles; Photo Index; References. Leather Bound Edition

Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions And Mares (Volume 2)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Holmes, Frank

Goodhue, Jim

Livingston, Phil

Pets & Animal Care

Western Horseman

Features articles about 23 influential Quarter Horse stallions and mares who gained fame in the early days of the AQHA.

Legends 2: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares (A Western Horseman Book)

Stated First American Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Dreams Like Thunder

Story Line Press

Everyone got married in the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s, Eva Eldridge, no longer so young and marginally employed, was the perfect target for handsome Vick, who promised everything: storybook romance, marital respectability, and the lively social life she loved. When he disappeared not long after their honeymoon, she was devastated. Eva hadn’t always been so vulnerable. Growing up pretty and popular in rural Oregon, she expected to marry young and live a life much like that of her parents, farming and rearing children. But then the United States threw its weight into World War II and as men headed to battle, the government started recruiting women to work in their places. Eva, like many other young women, found that life in the city with plenty of money, personal freedom, and lots of soldiers and sailors eager to pay court was more exhilarating than life down on the farm. After the war, she was ambivalent about getting married and settling down—at least until Vick arrived. Refusing to believe her brand-new husband had abandoned her, Eva set about tracking down a man who, she now believed, was more damaged by wartime trauma than she had known. But instead of a wounded hero, she found a long string of women much like herself—hard-working, intelligent women who had loved and married Vick and now had no idea where—or even who—he was. Drawing on a trove of some eight hundred letters and papers, Diane Simmons tells the story of Eva’s poignant struggle to get her dream husband back, as well as the stories of the women who had stood at the altar with Vick before and after her. Eva’s remarkable life illuminates women’s struggle for happiness at a time when marriage—and the perfect husband—meant everything.

The Courtship of Eva Eldridge: A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage Mad Fifties

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University Of Iowa Press

Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen

Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied in The Narcissism of Empire have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularizing the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and, as adults, bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage their fears and desires, inner fantasy is the necessary ingredient of literature, and popular fiction often offers the opportunity to probe the mind of an age. The connection between childhood loss and the desire for imperial escape, power, and dominance is illuminated by De Quincey's mad screeds against the Chinese as both terrifyingly powerful and laughably weak, while Stevenson's romances, though written from an invalid's bed, are credited with "selling" the idea of empire as manly adventure. Conan Doyle's tales of a Britain menaced at home by imperial blowback are models of Great Power paranoia that resonate today, and Kipling's stories of imperial Britain grow increasingly grandiose as childhood's psychic wounds are re-opened. Finally, Dinesen portrays plantation life in British East Africa as a gentle romance in which displaced African "squatters" serve as loyal and adoring retainers, providing the aristocratic aura for which the author yearns. It is sometimes said that, "Love's loss is empire's gain," and The Narcissism of Empire shows, for these writers, empire presented a magnificent opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Liverpool University Press

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