Heartbreak Hotel - Softcover

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061042781 ISBN 13: 9780061042782

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1993

Synopsis

Alabama, 1956: While Elvis Presley was singing about love, one young woman was learning about life.<P> Everyone loves Maggie Deloach, one of the most popular girls on campus with everything going for her. An impeccable lineage. Picture-perfect looks. The best sorority, and the best fraternity boy's pin. The ultimate Southern belle, Maggie knows what the rules are and is willing to play by them. No surprises are waiting in her future -- but neither are any disappointments. <P> Then, amid the stifling heat of an Alabama summer, everything changes. There is talk of a racial revolution brewing, one that surely should not touch her protected world... but somehow does. There is growing sexual awareness that she knows should shock her... yet does not. There is a single act of defiance and courage that will forever alter the way others think of her... and how Maggie thinks herself. <P> "An absolute gem... a rare and wonderful book." <BR> --<I>Richmond News Leader</I>

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Review

"Marvelously detailed."

-- "The New York Times"

"Anne Rivers Siddons...delivers the goods -- the whole fabulous package -- with every book she writes."

-- Pat Conroy, bestselling author of "The Prince of Tides"

About the Author

Anne Rivers Siddons was born in a small railroad town just south of Atlanta, where her family has lived for six generations. She attended Auburn University and later joined the staff of Atlanta magazine. Her first novel, Heartbreak Hotel, a story of her college days at Auburn, was later made into a movie called Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy. Since then she has written fifteen more novels, many of which have been bestsellers. Recently, a movie version of her later novel The House Next Door was aired on LifeTime Network. Ms. Siddons now divides her time between Atlanta and Brooklin, Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061042781
• ISBN 13: 9780061042782
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback