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Standing in the Rainbow

By Fannie Flagg

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780804119351

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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,Continue

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."


From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Standing in the Rainbow

    by Fannie Flagg Random House, 2002 Hardcover, $25.95 (494pp) ISBN: 0-679-42615-9 Set between 1946 and 2000 in Elmwood, Missouri, Fannie Flagg's Standing in the Rainbow revisits middle America and the charms of small town living. Neighbor Dorothy broa ... (read full critics)

    southernscribe published on Fri, 1 Oct 2010

  • Standing in the Rainbow By Fannie Flagg

    One of fiction's cardinal rules is to write what you know, and from her rich depiction of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, the setting for her new novel Standing in the Rainbow, you'd bet Fannie Flagg was born in a small town where everyone knows each othe ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 11 Sep 2010

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