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FROM: <SSTbooks@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/26/00, 1:54 PM
FROM: "Blair Ratsoy" <blairr@picnet.org>
REC'D: 1/27/00, 9:27 AM
SSTbooks@aol.com wrote:
> I'm sending this story synopsis request for a title/author search again,in
> case people missed it. I told the gentleman who is anxious to find it that
> librarians know everything and so far I haven't been disappointed :-). This
> time I did not receive one answer to my query and since you folks are always
> so quick "on the uptake" I was really surprised. Please let me know,or please
> refer me to another resource where I might find out what this book is. Thanks
> a lot.
> Cynthia Parker
> sstbooks@aol.com
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> Subject: Novel Title Search
> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 08:14:14 -0500 (EST)
> From: SSTbooks@aol.com
> To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
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> Hi,Super Sleuths!
> A customer in my store gave me a lengthy description of a book he has been
> trying for years to find again. He read it 20 or 30 years ago. Can any of you
> help me with a title and author? (It sounds like a tear jerker to me!)
>
> It begins at a cattle ranch in northern Spain.(near Santillana/Santander?)
> Elderly ranch owner-violent argument with workers-has heart attack-dies.
> Ranch manager,a German Jew,has been having an affair with daughter of the
> ranch owner. Her husband is an incurably ill invalid.
> Daughter and mother move to California-set up ranch south of San Francisco.
> Daughter goes to doctor and learns she has cancer.
> Walking down the street she runs into former ranch manager,who has emigrated
> to Mexico and has a wife and child there. He is in S.F. on business.
> They discover they are still in love-go to her Calif. ranch.
> He has to go back to Mexico-says he will come back to Calif. the following
> year.
> She says "you will find me here"-clear implication she will be dead of cancer
> and buried next to her mother.
> It was a NY Times Sunday book review-listed book on best seller page,but
> under category of "Bear In Mind" or other general category.
>
> TIA for any help you can give.
> Cynthia Parker
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