Standing in the Rainbow
by fannie flagg | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099448939 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099448939 Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
From the talented storyteller comes a sprawling, feel-good novel with an old-fashioned beginning, middle and end. The predominant setting is tiny Elmwood Springs, Mo., and the protagonist is 10-year-old Bobby Smith, an earnest Cub Scout also capable of sneaking earthworms into his big sister's bed. His father is the town pharmacist and his mother is local radio personality Neighbor Dorothy (whom readers will recognize from Flagg's Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!). In 1946, Harry Truman presides over a victorious nation anticipating a happy and prosperous future. During the next several decades, the plot expands to include numerous beguiling characters who interact with the Smith family among them, the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers, led by matriarch Minnie, who survive misadventures galore to find fame after an appearance on the Arthur Godfrey show in 1949, the same year Bobby's self-esteem soars when he wins the annual town bubble gum contest. Also on hand are tractor salesman Ham Sparks, who becomes amazingly successful in politics, despite his marriage to overwhelmingly shy Betty Raye Oatman, and well-liked mortician Cecil Figgs, a sponsor of Neighbor Dorothy, who, as a bachelor in the mid-century South, also enjoys a secret life. The effects of changing social mores are handled deftly; historical events as they impact little Elmwood Springs are duly noted, and everything is infused with the good humor and joie de vivre that are Flagg's stock-in-trade
Will be also a ring later on...
Participants so far:
1. Hellie (UK)
2. ekr22 (UK)
this didn't happen?
Participants so far:
1. Hellie (UK)
2. ekr22 (UK)
this didn't happen?
on its way to France - as a Rabck -
bon voyage!
bon voyage!
Thank you kiki66, I just found it in the mailbox and can't wait to begin the reading.
I'm forever a big fan of Fannie Flagg.
My August offer in greenbadger's "One book a month offered 2018"
Entering :
- Florence71
And so be it. I'll go to Florence. :)
Entering :
- Florence71
And so be it. I'll go to Florence. :)
Bonne lecture Florence !
Journal Entry 8 by Florence71 at Fontenay-sous-Bois, Ile-de-France France on Thursday, September 13, 2018
Thanks Icila ! I have few from this author in my TBR to read.