Standing in the rainbow: a novel
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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 the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us 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. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."
Subjects
Subjects
Blind musicians
Blind musicians -- Fiction
Fiction
Gospel musicians
Gospel musicians -- Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Humorous fiction
Large type books
Literature
Missouri -- Fiction
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Sales personnel
Sales personnel -- Fiction
Women in radio broadcasting
Women in radio broadcasting -- Fiction
Blind musicians -- Fiction
Fiction
Gospel musicians
Gospel musicians -- Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Humorous fiction
Large type books
Literature
Missouri -- Fiction
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Sales personnel
Sales personnel -- Fiction
Women in radio broadcasting
Women in radio broadcasting -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780679426158
9780375431722
9780345478634
9780375431722
9780345478634
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6, 26 Points
Level 6, 26 Points
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Grouped Work ID | e07cbbd5-229c-1da4-b402-a7bb472109ac |
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Grouping Title | standing in the rainbow |
Grouping Author | fannie flagg |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2021-01-20 04:51:35AM |
Last Indexed | 2021-01-20 05:06:56AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | 9780679426158 |
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author | Flagg, Fannie. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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display_description | 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 the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us 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. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Elmwood Springs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
series_with_volume | Elmwood Springs| | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
subject_facet | Blind musicians -- Fiction Gospel musicians -- Fiction Humorous fiction Large type books Missouri -- Fiction Mothers and sons -- Fiction Sales personnel -- Fiction Women in radio broadcasting -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Standing in the rainbow : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Standing in the Rainbow Standing in the rainbow : a novel / Fannie Flagg Standing in the rainbow [LARGE PRINT] : a novel / Fannie Flagg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Standing in the rainbow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Blind musicians Fiction Gospel musicians Humor (Fiction) Humorous fiction Large type books Literature Mothers and sons Sales personnel Women in radio broadcasting |