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Author: Virginia SwiftFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: HarpercollinsEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 006019555XSubject: Historical
Publication Year: 2000Topic: --
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After 20 years away, professor Sally Adler returns to the small college town of Laramie, Wyoming, to assume a prestigious position as the Dunwoodie Distinguished Chair in American Women's History, endowed by the late poet Margaret Dunwoodie. While organizing Margaret's papers and possessions, Sally discovers a stash of unpublished poems, rare diamonds, and evidence that Margaret's longtime lover, Ernst Malthus, was possibly a Nazi spy. Sally barely takes a breath before a local skinhead and later a group of crazed misfits led by a cooky tycoon named Elroy Foote attack her house, the university history department, and the Dunwoodie archives in search of the poet's fortune. With help from the ATF, the FBI, and her college sweetheart, Hawk, Sally must now sort through the chaos caused by secrets and betrayals of the past.

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Sally Alder is a couple of ears past her wild youth as the hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. But then she's grown with age, She's wiser and more coolheaded now, and, more important, Sally has learned how to keep a secret. It's a good thing, too, because she's going to need every advantage she's gained in order to handle the job she's just taken.

Imagine having to move from LA to Laramie to get a thrill.

A professor of history at UCLA, Sally has just been offered the hugely endowed and deliciously secretive Dunwoodie Distinguished Chair in American Women's History at the University of Wyoming. Job description: Move into the late Meg Dunwoodie's posh residence in Laramie (the only one of its kind) and, with sole proprietors of her papers, construct the definitive Meg Dunwoodie biography--without telling anyone anything about it.

Sally Alder is a couple of ears past her wild youth as the hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. But then she's grown with age, She's wiser and more coolheaded now, and, more important, Sally has learned how to keep a secret. It's a good thing, too, because she's going to need every advantage she's gained in order to handle the job she's just taken.

Imagine having to move from LA to Laramie to get a thrill.

A professor of history at UCLA, Sally has just been offered the hugely endowed and deliciously secretive Dunwoodie Distinguished Chair in American Women's History at the University of Wyoming. Job description: Move into the late Meg Dunwoodie's posh residence in Laramie (the only one of its kind) and, with sole proprietors of her papers, construct the definitive Meg Dunwoodie biography--without telling anyone anything about it.

In this town, rumors abound and secrets are practically nonexistent.

Of course, everyone knows that Sally has been hired to poke through old Meg's papers, and a lot of people think that somewhere among them sits a treasure map that could lead to a fortune in gold Krugerrands. Oneway or another, most of Laramie is determined to getinto Meg Dunwoodie's house.

There are break-ins, a curious sheriff, gossipy friends, and avaricious faculty at the university. And, if that isn't enough to distract Sally from her research, sexy Hawk Green has shown up to rekindle a romance Sally thought was gone forever.

But all this goes deeper and the stakes are higher thanSally could have imagined. As she delves intoMeg's romantic and heartbreaking past as a foreigncorrespondent in Paris during World War II, the forces of good and evil are aligning in Laramie, and Sally realizes that, truly, those who don't learn from their pasts are doomed to repeat it.

In the tradition, of Susan Isaacs and Fannie Flagg, Virginia Swift has written a story that breaks the mold, with a cast of finely drawn characters and a heroine whose wit and intelligence are matched only by herdetermination.



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"Swift makes you believe in second chances, in lifelong friendships and love, and she is spot-on in her portrayal of small-town gossip and small-minded academics. It's inspiring to drink in her passionate view of middle age and her insistence that one's character outlasts one's youth and indiscretions."
Kirkus Reviews  (03/01/2000)


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ISBN: 9780060195557
Title: Brown-Eyed Girl
Author: Swift, Virginia
Publisher: Harper Collins
Binding: Hardcover
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Sally Alder is a couple of years past her wild youth as the hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. But then she's grown with age. She's wiser and more coolheaded now, and, more important, Sally has learned how to keep a secret. It's a good thing, too, because she's going to need every advantage she's gained in order to handle the job she's just taken. 306 pages.

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