Resultados para "Nevada" en Pueblos y campo

I've never been enough for the people around me, not for my parents before they died and not for the tough grandfather who raised me. When he unexpectedly passes, leaving me the famous (and failing) Sugar Maple Farms, all I want is to sell so I can leave the weight of being a Carville behind. Until Jane shows up. The woman is smart, salty, and sexy as can be. I can't admit it, but her vision for Sugar Maple Farms is captivating. Everything about her is captivating. While we spend every day arguing, I spend every night thinking about her.

The village of Slyford St. James is no stranger to supernatural happenings, as long-time residents Jed and Emma know all too well. Although Jed’s spiritual connection with the dead was once a source of pride, it now fills him with dread. When he receives an invitation to the family estate of his old army friend Simon, who wants Jed to use his gift to solve the brutal murder of his elder brother, Jed is initially reluctant, but Emma encourages him to agree, hoping that this new sense of purpose might lift him out of his melancholy, despite the circumstances.

Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot, and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water - until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes...not drowned, not lost, simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.

Esta es la historia de un escritor que viaja a Nevada, Estados Unidos, entre agosto de 2007 y junio de 2008, pero es también mucho más. Es un relato en el que lo vivido, el instante real, se mezcla con recuerdos, imágenes, sueños y evocaciones. En el que el paisaje árido y hostil del desierto y el horizonte verde, rojo y fucsia de los casinos de la ciudad de Reno, con su trama de luces brillantes y acristaladas, conducen una y otra vez al narrador—y al lector—a ese otro paisaje más íntimo, más personal del País Vasco.