Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel - Hardcover

Gilmore, Susan Gregg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307395014 ISBN 13: 9780307395016

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2008

Synopsis

In early 1970s Riggold, Georgia, Catherine Grace Cline, the daughter of the local Baptist preacher, spends her Saturday afternoons at the Dairy Queen, dreaming of escaping her small town for Atlanta, but after her dream becomes a reality, a return to her hometown following a tragedy transforms her perspective. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"If I had to make a comparison, I would compare Susan Gregg Gilmore to Fannie Flagg, but Gilmore more than holds her own. This is an unusually engaging novel by a very fine writer who knows exactly what she is doing."
--Lee Smith, author of "The Last Girls
""Susan Gregg Gilmore's debut novel, "Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen," is storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way."
--Jill McCorkle, author of "Carolina Moon"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"This is Susan Gregg Gilmore s first novel, but her voice is similar to that of Fannie Flagg. Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of this lovable heroine."
Tampa Tribune
"Gilmore tells her tale with gentle humor and genuine regard for her characters."
Omaha World-Herald
If I had to make a comparison, I would compare Susan Gregg Gilmore to Fannie Flagg, but Gilmore more than holds her own. This is an unusually engaging novel by a very fine writer who knows exactly what she is doing.
Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
Susan Gregg Gilmore s debut novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way.
Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon

From the Hardcover edition."

"This is Susan Gregg Gilmore's first novel, but her voice is similar to that of Fannie Flagg. Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of this lovable heroine."
--Tampa Tribune

"Gilmore tells her tale with gentle humor and genuine regard for her characters."
--Omaha World-Herald

"If I had to make a comparison, I would compare Susan Gregg Gilmore to Fannie Flagg, but Gilmore more than holds her own. This is an unusually engaging novel by a very fine writer who knows exactly what she is doing."
--Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls

"Susan Gregg Gilmore's debut novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way."
--Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

SUSAN GREGG GILMORE has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three daughters. This is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307395014
• ISBN 13: 9780307395016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296