Georgia Bottoms: A Novel - Hardcover

Childress, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316033049 ISBN 13: 9780316033046

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2011

Synopsis

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.

Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day of the week, with Mondays off-none of whom knows about the others.

But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In GEORGIA BOTTOMS, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR ONE MISSISSIPPI

"Funniest novel I have read in ten years!"--Stephen King

"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter--big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted."--Susan Larson, "New Orleans Times-Picayune"

"Move over, Flannery O'Connor and make room for a new master. Mark Childress has written yet another laugh out loud Southern classic. In "Georgia Bottoms, " you will meet the most hilariously dysfunctional bunch of characters to come down the literary pike in years. Try to stop laughing!"--Fannie Flagg, author of "I Still Dream About You"

"Childress is like a good neighborhood gossip--just when you feel like you've heard the story before... he throws out a juicy detail you weren't anticipating and hooks you back in."-- "Los Angeles" " "" Times Book Review"

PRAISE FOR ONE MISSISSIPPI
"Funniest novel I have read in ten years!"--Stephen King

"The simple act of reading "Georgia Bottoms" releases tension; buttons are undone, shoes kicked off-man is it hot. Georgia is not perfect, but she's fun to be with." Susan Salter Reynolds, "Los Angeles Times""

"Move over, Flannery O'Connor . . . Mark Childress has written another laugh-out-loud Southern classic!"
--Fannie Flagg, author of I Still Dream About You

"The simple act of reading Georgia Bottoms releases tension; buttons are undone, shoes kicked off-man is it hot. Georgia is not perfect, but she's fun to be with."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

"One of the most irresistible liars ever to whip up a batch of pimento cheese sandwiches, the irreverent Georgia Bottoms allows Childress to poke fun at a number of sacred cows."--Gina Webb, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Hilarious...Riffs on small-town hypocrisy and racial tensions enliven the plot, but it's the unsinkable Georgia who makes the book delicious."--People

About the Author:

Mark Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama. He is the author of six previous novels, including One Mississippi and Crazy in Alabama, three books for children, and the screenplay of the film, Crazy in Alabama. He lives in Key West, Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316033049
• ISBN 13: 9780316033046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278