Robert James Waller - Free Library Land Online

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With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both. The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the small towns dying and the people with them, you can hear the wind. And on the back of the wind is the sound of an old accordion—tangos—mingling with the lonely thump of a single drum in the nighttime and a far-off warrior’s cry. On the back of the wind is the smell of worn saddle leather and sawdust, of sandalwood, and smoke from ancient ceremonial fires. To this, to a town called Salamander, comes 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. Robert James Waller’s fully imagined characters become people we know and care for deeply. High Plains Tango is the hauntingly lyrical story of a small town in the middle of nowhere, a town that forever changed—and was forever changed by—one man. From the Hardcover edition.]]> Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:39:14 +0300 The Long Night of Winchell Dear https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39673-the_long_night_of_winchell_dear.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39673-the_long_night_of_winchell_dear.html

The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way. He has gassed and oiled the Cadillac and adjusts the pistol in his right boot, then plays one of the six fiddle tunes he knows, thinking back to his good days with Lucinda Miller. Alone, he waits in his remote ranch house, while, just outside, an acquaintance named Luther hunts, unblinking and of nervous temperament and moving through yellow primrose bending in the night wind.
In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dear's ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by a campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving along the ridge of Guapa Mountain an hour ago, thinking about the gambler’s housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned far from civilization and what undefined presence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and begins to run across the desert floor.
And boring toward all of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from Los Angeles on a mission they've been given, they are professionals, cool and implacable at the start, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they are passing through. Forty minutes from their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long night of Winchell Dear.
The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us through the wind and dust of the high desert mountains, into the shadowy world of high-stakes poker fought in the back rooms of Amarillo and Little Rock, and headlong toward the book's stunning finale of chaotic terror, where an unexpected hero emerges. "From the Hardcover edition."]]> Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:39:14 +0300 Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39672-old_songs_in_a_new_cafe_selected_essays.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39672-old_songs_in_a_new_cafe_selected_essays.html

Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays

From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.]]> Wed, 12 Oct 1994 12:39:14 +0200 The Bridges of Madison County https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39675-the_bridges_of_madison_county.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39675-the_bridges_of_madison_county.html

If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world were so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they made it a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.]]> Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:39:14 +0200 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39674-puerto_vallarta_squeeze.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39674-puerto_vallarta_squeeze.html

The author of the blockbuster The Bridges of Madison County blends passion and adventure in the story of an American novelist in Mexico and his young lover, who take a trip with a killer.]]> Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:39:14 +0200 Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39671-slow_waltz_in_cedar_bend.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/39671-slow_waltz_in_cedar_bend.html

The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Bridges of Madison County once again brings characters and situations with his special blend of lyricism and magic. This is a bittersweet story about two good people who discover that true love, when it comes, is rarely fair, or right--or without pain.]]> Tue, 12 Oct 1993 12:39:14 +0200 Old Songs in a New Cafe https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/421132-old_songs_in_a_new_cafe.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/421132-old_songs_in_a_new_cafe.html

From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:10:41 +0200 (1993) Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/421133-1993_slow_waltz_in_cedar_bend.html https://politics.library.land/robert-james-waller/421133-1993_slow_waltz_in_cedar_bend.html

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