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- Title
- A False Sense of Well Being: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
- Author
- Braselton, Jeanne
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345443128
- ISBN 13
- 9780345443120
WINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL
&;Braselton&;s confident first novel is [a] depiction of love on the rocks in the New South that combines small town charm with major league angst. . . . A down-home Proustian recherché search . . . [An] entertaining, rueful account of an apparently &;normal&; marriage.&;
&;Los Angeles Times
&;Simply extraordinary. [This novel] has the wit and modern comedy of Nora Ephron and the literary force of Flannery O&;Connor.&;
&;KAYE GIBBONS
Author of Ellen Foster
At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, &;happily ever after&; never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can&;t she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There&;s her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie&;s younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on Jerry Springer; their mother, who persistently crosses the dirty words out of library books; and of course the stuffed green headless duck. . . .
When a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on&;and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future.
&;Braselton&;s confident first novel is [a] depiction of love on the rocks in the New South that combines small town charm with major league angst. . . . A down-home Proustian recherché search . . . [An] entertaining, rueful account of an apparently &;normal&; marriage.&;
&;Los Angeles Times
&;Simply extraordinary. [This novel] has the wit and modern comedy of Nora Ephron and the literary force of Flannery O&;Connor.&;
&;KAYE GIBBONS
Author of Ellen Foster
At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, &;happily ever after&; never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can&;t she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There&;s her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie&;s younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on Jerry Springer; their mother, who persistently crosses the dirty words out of library books; and of course the stuffed green headless duck. . . .
When a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on&;and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future.
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About the Author
Jeanne Braselton was born and raised in Georgia. She is the adopted daughter of a poet who was designated chief of the Cherokee Nation. While working as a journalist for the Rome News Tribune, she won numerous Georgia Press Association awards. A False Sense of Well-Being is her first novel.
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