High plains tango
Subtitle: a novel
By: Robert James Waller
Edition: Doubleday large print home library ed.
Publisher: Shaye Areheart  Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780739455739
Subjects: Drifters -- Fiction.; Carpenters -- Fiction.; Rare birds -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; Political corruption -- Fiction.; Dwellings -- Design and construction -- Fiction.; Large type books.; South Dakota -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander and longs for something more than she is, and Susanna Benteen, beautiful and enigmatic, who was drawn to Salamander for mysterious reasons of her own, a woman the town has labeled a witch. The women and his carpenter's trade and an old Indian known as Flute Player bring Carlisle a sense of contentment for a while. But his quiet is shattered as bulldozer treads begin to turn and the Yerkes County War commences. Run or stand your ground, that is Carlisle's dilemma, Gally on one side, Susanna on the other.