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Standing in the rainbow by Fannie Flagg
Book Number:RC 54819
3 sound cassettes
Follows town life in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, from the 1940s to the 1990s.
This is the continuing story that started in Welcome to the World, Baby
Girl! RC 47006 Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her
voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the
local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a
thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and
their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm
Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling
himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women
who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the
beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods,
the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous
Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The time
is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in
the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from
war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. [The author] gives
[the reader] a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the
once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest
between laughter and tears. Some Strong language. Bestseller.
I really enjoyed both of these books. It had been a while since I had read
Welcome to the world baby girl but it was easy to pick up right where it
ended. Fannie Flagg writes with such real human emotion and detail that you
get a sense of being in Elmwood Springs. Heart warming, funny, poignant and
all together enjoyable, these books are a comfort read. I give them both a
5 out of 5.
happy reading,
Carla/TexasRed
Sounds interesting.