Bibliograph

Standing in the rainbow, a novel, Fannie Flagg

Type

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Standing in the rainbow, a novel, Fannie Flagg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Standing in the rainbow

Oclc number

49402975

Responsibility statement

Fannie Flagg

Series statement

Elmwood Springs, 2

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 6, 26, SD, Quiz 65585, English fiction.

Sub title

a novel

Summary

The time is 1946, 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. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, 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. This ambitious effort from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe spans fifty years fraught with scandal and romance

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