Before We Turn To Dust - Clara Sneed

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Résumé :
A fresh new voice in literary fiction steps onto the stage. - Jodi Thomas, author of NEW YORK TIMES bestseller and soon-to-be-released Netflix Drama series, RANSOM CANYON It's 1912 in the Texas Panhandle, and Lena Snyder Sneed is madly in love. The only problem is, it's not with her wealthy husband, Beal, who for months at a time leaves Lena alone to care for the children and homestead...and to her own devices. With Beal gone, Lena falls into a relationship with Al Boyce, a wealthy cattleman in town more often than her husband. And in small-town Texas, gossip spreads like wildfire - especially among the wealthy. When Beal gets wind of Lena's liaisons with Al, jealousy, revenge, and pride brew into a Biblical storm that consumes the two families and leaves tragedy in its wake. Based on one of the most documented feuds in Texas history, Before We Turn to Dust is an honest, shocking, and informative glimpse into the society and frontier justice that prevailed in turn-of-the-century Texas....

Biographie:
Clara Sneed was born in Texas and never got over it, despite a peripatetic childhood that landed her in California.She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature at UC Berkeley, raised a son, managed IT systems for a San Francisco law firm, and had a successful second career as a tutor for writing and Spanish-all the while working on her own writing.Though she began as a poet, she loves complex historical stories that require a lot of research. The events depicted in her debut novel Before We Turn to Dust (Blue Handle Publishing, December 2024) more than qualify. Her nonfiction account Because This is Texas, was first published in the 1999 Panhandle-Plains Historical Review and was republished by Blue Handle Publishing in June 2025.Sneed and her husband split their time between Berkeley and Milam County, Texas....

Sommaire:
Clara Sneed was born in Texas and never got over it, despite a peripatetic childhood that landed her in California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature at UC Berkeley, raised a son, managed IT systems for a San Francisco law firm, and had a successful second career as a tutor for writing and Spanish-all the while working on her own writing. Though she began as a poet, she loves complex historical stories that require a lot of research, and the events depicted in this account more than qualify. Her fictionalized account of the feud, Before We Turn to Dust, was published in the 2024 by Blue Handle Publishing. Sneed and her husband split their time between Berkeley and Milam County, Texas....