Standing in the Rainbow
A Womens Fiction, Fiction, American book. I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise Fannie Flagg, Standing...
Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.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...
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You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere you called, a recorded message connected you to another recorded message and then hung up on you. Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow // Those Russkies wont put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down. Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow // I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. Its like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar. Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow //
Could not put this book down. Had to listen to this at lunch it had me so enthralled. Enjoyed Neighbor Dorothy the most but wish the author would have shared more about Bobby as an adult. I couldn't remember if I'd read this one or not. So I started it again, and I enjoyed the odd feeling of being so smart that I knew what was going to happen. Eventually, it occurred to me that I must have read the book already. 4 STARS"Meet the unforgettable residents of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, in a story that captures the humorous and complex realities of ordinary people, including Neighbor Dorothy, a radio hostess, and her wayward son Bobby, the Oatman Family gospel singers, and hotshot salesman Hamm Sparks." (From Amazon) More tales from a small town...
