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Crook, Elizabeth, 1959-
Subjects
Young women -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Women pioneers -- Fiction.
Waitresses -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Spur Award.
New Mexico -- Fiction.
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Crook, Elizabeth, 1959-
Young women -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Women pioneers -- Fiction.
Waitresses -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Spur Award.
New Mexico -- Fiction.
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The
night
journal
/ Elizabeth Crook.
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Crook, Elizabeth, 1959-
Viking, c2006.
Call #:
FICTION CRO
Subjects
Young women -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Women pioneers -- Fiction.
Waitresses -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Spur Award.
New Mexico -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780670034772
0670034770
Description:
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass composed starkly revealing diaries of her life on the southwestern frontier, first as a Harvey Girl at the glamorous Montezuma Resort in New Mexico and later as the wife of brilliant, and often-absent, railway engineer Eliott Bass. A generation later, Hannah’s daughter, Claudia Bass, renowned historian known to all as Bassie, staked her academic career and reputation on these vibrant accounts, editing and publishing them to great acclaim. Thanks to the journals and to the industry Bassie created around them, Hannah would forever be one of the most romantic and famous figures of southwestern history. Meg, however—Bassie’s granddaughter—finds the family lore oppressive. When an excavation on the old Bass family property beckons a now-elderly and viper-tongued Bassie back to the fabled land of her childhood, Meg only grudgingly consents to accompany her. Determined not to live under the shadow of her ancestry, Meg has never even read the journals. But when an unexpected discovery casts doubt on the history recorded in their pages and harbored in Bassie’s memories, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great grandmother’s story and ventures even deeper into Hannah’s life to unlock the mystery at the journal’s core."--Inside jacket.
Awards:
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel (long), 2007.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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