Stormy Weather (P.S.) - Softcover

Jiles, Paulette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060537337 ISBN 13: 9780060537333

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls--responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea--know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. But in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves the girls and their mother, Elizabeth, alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times.

Returning to their previously abandoned family farm, the resilient Stoddard women must now place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe.

About this title

Review:

"Jiles's eloquent, engaging novel celebrates four strong women toughing out the Great Depression . . . [a] gritty saga."--Publishers Weekly

"[A] stirring story . . . of self and home in language as spare and stark as the Texas landscape."--Booklist

"Jiles's follow-up to her highly praised debut, Enemy Women, [is] a deeply satisfying novel with wide appeal."--Library Journal (starred review)

About the Author:

Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the World, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060537337
• ISBN 13: 9780060537333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370