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Susie Moloney A Dry Spell
Island Books 19980801 0440223458 / 9780440223450 MM Very Good
0440223458 From Library Journal The farming town of Goodlands, North Dakota, has suffered through four years of drought, with one farm after another falling to the auctioneer's gavel. Then a stranger comes to town?a rainmaker?and the stage is set for a confrontation with the subterranean force that is punishing the people of Goodlands for the sins of their ancestors. It starts with small things?a driveway cracks in two, fences are cut?but soon a dry, dark dust rises from the sere soil of Goodlands and takes possession of first one, then another young woman's will. Unfortunately, the gears creak in this humdrum thriller. Moloney (Bastion Falls, o.p.) tries to generate interest, but she builds too little tension much too slowly; the final confrontation is not very exciting. Not recommended, though with film rights sold to Tom Cruise's film company, there may be interest. -?David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist Goodlands, North Dakota, is enduring its fourth year of drought when Tom Keatley, rainmaker, saunters into town. Although Tom is a drifter, somehow he got the letter town banker Karen Grange sent him after seeing a TV clip of him at work. He camps out near Karen's place just as all hell--fires, sabotaged water tanks, crevasses opening in the middle of roads, huge trees falling so as to create maximum damage--breaks loose. The vengeful spirit of a woman raped and murdered by a town father decades ago is on the rampage. The spirit's hatred is behind Goodlands' dry spell, too, but everything comes round right after a final showdown between it and Tom. Meanwhile, Moloney pads a simple plot with persuasive, subsidiary rural characterizations and with incidents that betray aspirations to the King's RowPeyton Place, small-town-scandal subgenre as much as to dark fantasy. Occasionally, Moloney seems to strive for even greater literary distinction, and then the yarn reads like a blend of Stephen King and Jane Smiley. Peculiar and, Delacorte hopes, with the assistance of a big publicity push, peculiarly attractive. Ray Olson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Susie Moloney A Dry Spell
Delacorte Press 0385318294 / 9780385318297 Hardcover Good
0385318294 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Susie Moloney Bastion Falls
Dell 1999 044022344X / 9780440223443 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
044022344X Review "Moloney is a gifted storyteller, drawing her likeable, credible character with bold strokes and subtle touches."--The Globe and Mail -- Review Review "Moloney is a gifted storyteller, drawing her likeable, credible character with bold strokes and subtle touches."--The Globe and Mail May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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