Southern Discomfort

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Southern Discomfort
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rita Mae Brown
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 174,Width 108
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780553274462
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publication Date 1 April 1983
Publication Country United States

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.