Valentine : a novel /
Wetmore, Elizabeth,
Valentine : a novel / Elizabeth Wetmore. - First Harper Perennial edition. - 308 pages ; 21 cm
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramirez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field, an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, one of the town's women decides to take matters into her own hands, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
9780062913272 0062913271
Women--Violence against--Fiction.
Small cities--Texas--Fiction.
Oil industries--Texas--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Femmes--Violence envers--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Petites villes--Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
--Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Relations raciales--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Oil industries.
Race relations.
Small cities.
Women--Violence against.
Odessa (Tex.)--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Texas.
Texas--Odessa.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
813/.6
Valentine : a novel / Elizabeth Wetmore. - First Harper Perennial edition. - 308 pages ; 21 cm
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramirez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field, an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, one of the town's women decides to take matters into her own hands, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
9780062913272 0062913271
Women--Violence against--Fiction.
Small cities--Texas--Fiction.
Oil industries--Texas--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Femmes--Violence envers--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Petites villes--Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
--Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Relations raciales--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Oil industries.
Race relations.
Small cities.
Women--Violence against.
Odessa (Tex.)--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Texas--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Texas.
Texas--Odessa.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
813/.6