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In 1922 a lone woman arrives in a filthy frontier mining town in the Pacific Northwest. Her goal: to resurrect her dead uncle's newspaper. Within two days a naked man is shot dead, a famous man is rumoured to be heading their way and the only man capable of fixing her broken-down press so that she might spread this news is a Chinese printer from the nearby forbidden settlement of Lousetown. Over the next month, Lila Sinclair will take even bigger risks to see her business thrive-from her questionable news reporting to her negotiations with a partner who's a liar and a gambler. Reckless, stubborn and with a maddening tendency to shed tears when provoked, Lila works long hours next to her printer to see her dream through, only to discover all that she could lose. Inspired by the historical figures Morris "Two Gun" Cohen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose joint pursuits would later bolster a revolution that ushered in the modern era for China, and further informed by Puccini's LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, with its themes of intercultural love in the Old West, June Hutton blends fact with fiction in a dramatic tale that is part historical novel, part steampunk opera and part otherworldly Western. Brutally beautiful, at times playful and absurd and then swiftly tragic, TWO GUN & SUN explores themes of truth, love and independence.… (altro)
In the early 1920s, 29-year-old Lila Sinclair moves to a small town to take over her deceased uncle's newspaper business. She finds a printing press in great disrepair, a mining town with dangerous working conditions, divided into a white community and a Chinese community, with a lot of prejudice. The book includes real-life figures Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, whose efforts would bolster a revolution in China. The book also features Puccini's opera La Faniculla del West, with themes of intercultural love. Lila finds herself drawn to her Chinese printer, Vincent, who is involved with Dr. Sun and Two-Gun.
The writing is wonderful. Ms. Hutton can write about sensory imagery so well! She can also delve deeply into the thoughts and feelings of her main characters (as she showed in her previous novel, Underground). Lila's honesty, vanity, bravery, insecurities....they all shine through in this somewhat quirky story. Lots of humour, lots of tragedy; this is a great read. ( )
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"Two-Gun Cohen is essentially a piece of historic fiction. Each page, like many of the stories that he relayed to the press over the preceding thirty years contained inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. -- Daniel S. Levy, author, Two-Gun Cohen, a Biography -- commenting on the Charles Drage version of Cohen's life, as told to Drage by Cohen himself.
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HONG KONG -- Preparations are underway to launch yet another campaign against China's notorious warlords according to a representative of Generalissimo Sun Yat-Sen.
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It's all in that notebook, not just numbers and news, but my life, my opera -- and I will have it back.
In 1922 a lone woman arrives in a filthy frontier mining town in the Pacific Northwest. Her goal: to resurrect her dead uncle's newspaper. Within two days a naked man is shot dead, a famous man is rumoured to be heading their way and the only man capable of fixing her broken-down press so that she might spread this news is a Chinese printer from the nearby forbidden settlement of Lousetown. Over the next month, Lila Sinclair will take even bigger risks to see her business thrive-from her questionable news reporting to her negotiations with a partner who's a liar and a gambler. Reckless, stubborn and with a maddening tendency to shed tears when provoked, Lila works long hours next to her printer to see her dream through, only to discover all that she could lose. Inspired by the historical figures Morris "Two Gun" Cohen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose joint pursuits would later bolster a revolution that ushered in the modern era for China, and further informed by Puccini's LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, with its themes of intercultural love in the Old West, June Hutton blends fact with fiction in a dramatic tale that is part historical novel, part steampunk opera and part otherworldly Western. Brutally beautiful, at times playful and absurd and then swiftly tragic, TWO GUN & SUN explores themes of truth, love and independence.
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The writing is wonderful. Ms. Hutton can write about sensory imagery so well! She can also delve deeply into the thoughts and feelings of her main characters (as she showed in her previous novel, Underground). Lila's honesty, vanity, bravery, insecurities....they all shine through in this somewhat quirky story. Lots of humour, lots of tragedy; this is a great read. (