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Synopsis
This is the ultimate small town novel and a straight forwardly romantic, charming, witty story set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in 1978. The colourful characters include: Iva Lou Wade - book mobile librarian, who has yet to place the flag on her sexual peak; Fleeta Mullins, chain-smoking pharmacy cashier with a penchant for wrestling and Jack MacChesney, the coal-mining bachelor looking for true love. And of course there's our heroine Ave Maria Mulligan - the town pharmacist and self-proclaimed spinster, who believes that at 35 it's about time something interesting happened in her life. And it does... two unexpected marriage proposals and a no-holds-barred family feud... Big Stone Gap is a wonderfully vibrant, unashamedly feel-good novel.
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In the town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, not much happens. The highlight of 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan's week comes on Friday, with the arrival of the Bookmobile, the sight of which sends her into raptures. Her favourite book concerns the ancient Chinese art of reading faces. Through her face-readings, we come to understand the hostilities simmering within her family: her father whose small eyes are the clear "sign of a deceptive nature" and her aunt who "has a small head and thin lips. (That's a terrible combination)". Adriana Trigiani's first novel concerns the family scandals that befall Ave Maria in this seemingly uneventful town. Greed, lust, envy--all the ancient emotional elements--manifest themselves even in this hamlet of "ordinary folk". Fans of Fannie Flagg or Rebecca Wells will enjoy this down-home tale, full of small, everyday details and colloquial revelations. The writing is often awkward, but so too are the characters who inhabit this place: the Bookmobile lady who thinks of herself as the sexiest woman alive; the amateur actors in the local Outdoor Drama who bristle with ambition when they hear that Elizabeth Taylor is coming to visit. In Big Stone Gap, her visit is so anticipated, it's like she's an angel sent from heaven. --Ellen Williams, Amazon.com.
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Kate Forbes's honey-coated southern accents could make a Latin primer sing. --Sue Arnold, The Guardian
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- ISBN 10 1416527923
- ISBN 13 9781416527923
- BindingPaperback
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