Stormy Weather

Jiles, Paulette

ISBN 10: 0061256463 ISBN 13: 9780061256462

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Oil is On king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression of 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 ...

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Product Description

Witnessing the rise and loss of her family's oil business in the wake of her father's gambling problems, proud young Jeanine accompanies the other women in her family to an abandoned farm when her father dies under dubious circumstances. By the author of Enemy Women. Simultaneous.

Review

Praise for ‘Enemy Women’, a Sunday Times Read of the Week and Glamour's 'Must Read'

'I loved “Enemy Women”. It is a gritty, memorable book, full of the things I like best in a novel – a sparky heroine, an unsentimental love story, a confident retelling of the past. It is a delight from start to finish, without a single misstep.' Tracy Chevalier, author of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ and ‘Falling Angels’

'With the eye of a poet and the rectitude of a historian, Paulette Jiles travels the backroads of the American Civil War and returns with a story that is both gripping and gorgeously rendered. Adair is destined to find a place of honour among the great heroines of modern fiction.' Geraldine Brooks, author of ‘Years of Wonders’ and ‘March’

'Remarkable...entirely deserving of the plaudits it will doubtless continue to receive here. Jiles isn't content with merely telling us something we know already, but sets out to show us what this means, in images of startling beauty and horror.' Christina Koning, The Times

'Although “Enemy Women” is rich in historical research, it is partly Adair's unexpected modernity that makes it so compelling, as she battles her way through war with sharp rejoinders and a waspish wit, by turns fierce, wily and pragmatic...Jiles's epically plotted novel moves to a beat as irresistibly vernacular as its heroine's confession.' Hephzibah Anderson, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061256463
• ISBN 13: 9780061256462
• Binding: Audio CD