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Spinning Dust

Brainerd Beckwith
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  1. The book begins: Winter…a bitter, relentless cold lying heavy upon the slopes and eddying thick in the hollows; leafless limbs reaching upward toward the grey skies, like the scarred fingers of hands raised in prayer; white-locked farms huddling in half forsaken valleys; an occasional gaunt chateau standing back against the hills, dark, lonely, as some strange bird of ill omen might stand awaiting the hunter’s kill; frozen highways winding away through thin forests to a dead skyline, with only now and again the crunch of hoofs in the snow and the far jingle of droshky bells. Winter…wolves howling in the north over a mutilated carcass; a great eagle hovering in the distant sky; dark blotches upon the sodden snow; a specter stalking out of Russia-bleeding feet and hands, and a bleeding heart. Winter…a Polish cross.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
194
ISBN
9781162640006
  1. The book begins: Winter…a bitter, relentless cold lying heavy upon the slopes and eddying thick in the hollows; leafless limbs reaching upward toward the grey skies, like the scarred fingers of hands raised in prayer; white-locked farms huddling in half forsaken valleys; an occasional gaunt chateau standing back against the hills, dark, lonely, as some strange bird of ill omen might stand awaiting the hunter’s kill; frozen highways winding away through thin forests to a dead skyline, with only now and again the crunch of hoofs in the snow and the far jingle of droshky bells. Winter…wolves howling in the north over a mutilated carcass; a great eagle hovering in the distant sky; dark blotches upon the sodden snow; a specter stalking out of Russia-bleeding feet and hands, and a bleeding heart. Winter…a Polish cross.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
194
ISBN
9781162640006

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