01544cam a2200265 i 4500 545743644 TxAuBib 080107s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008000652 9780826341976 pbk. 0826341977 pbk. (OCoLC)5084 DLC DLC YDXCP TxAuBib rda Tinguely, Richard. Bent dreams / Richard Tinguely. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 220 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Eric Frigaard is awakened from the deep sleep of exhaustion by a loud pounding on his front door and discovers a despondent woman waiting to be invited inside. Whether by chance or destiny, Rosemarie has entered Bent, New Mexico, and Eric's life, on what portends to be the worst day of her life. She has shown up a year late on her promise to serve as a landscape consultant for Eric's twenty-acre self-sustaining farm in the foothills of the remote Sacramento Mountains. She is ill and penniless; he has a reputation for not being very friendly and preferring to keep to himself." "So begins the story of two loners, damaged by the vagaries of life, whose dreary souls evolve from mutual distrust into a relationship of growing respect and love."--BOOK JACKET. Farmers Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. New Mexico Fiction.