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Southern Discomfort
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Southern Discomfort
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Rita Mae Brown
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:288 | Dimensions(mm): Height 174,Width 108 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780553274462
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Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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Imprint |
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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Publication Date |
1 April 1983 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort.Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama-a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage-until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter.Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good), Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of emotions caused by her scandalous love.How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful human drama-an intense and exuberant affair of the heart.
Author Biography
Rita Mae Brownis the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series;A Nose for JusticeandMurder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day;andSix of One,as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.
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