04593cam a2200493 4500 240043995 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345478634 0345478630 B000FC1V2Y Amazon 5f807d63-c2f9-4d9e-ba3d-7534381b37c9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 50181 52952 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Flagg, Fannie. Standing in the Rainbow [Bridges eBook]. Random House Publishing Group, 2004. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1420kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 590kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Good news! Fannie's back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>Time</i>, "utterly irresistible."<br /> <br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. "A well-choreographed story of loyalty and survival that zigzags deftly across the postwar years . . . Flagg can cook up memorable women from the most down-to-earth ingredients.". Publishers Weekly (starred review.) "Flagg gives popular fiction a good name. . . . Let others pretend to literary greatness. Fannie goes for literary goodness--and achieves it.". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Another winner . . . an assortment of zany, lovable, and intriguing characters.". Chattanooga Free Press. "A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.". The New York Times. "It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.". Los Angeles Times. "Courageous and wise.". Houston Chronicle. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-09 14:24:47. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5f807d63-c2f9-4d9e-ba3d-7534381b37c9 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/5F8/07D/63/StandingintheRainbow9780345478634.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5F807D63-C2F9-4D9E-BA3D-7534381B37C9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/5F8/07D/63/StandingintheRainbow9780345478634.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5F807D63-C2F9-4D9E-BA3D-7534381B37C9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/5F8/07D/63/StandingintheRainbow9780345478634.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5F807D63-C2F9-4D9E-BA3D-7534381B37C9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/5F8/07D/63/StandingintheRainbow9780345478634.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5F807D63-C2F9-4D9E-BA3D-7534381B37C9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)