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Title: The Saints and Sinners of Okay County by DAYNA DUNBAR ISBN: 0-345-46039-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great storytelling, perfect pitch
Comment: This wonderful first novel by a gifted writer not only takes this reader back to the 1970s, but alsoto the nuances of landscape and life in small town Oklahoma, or probably anywhere in the US south and miswest. A subtly femiist text,its a great read for women and men.
Rating: 5
Summary: Warmhearted, Uplifting, and Different
Comment: Aletta Honor is struggling to keep her family afloat with no money, three children, another one close on the way, and abandoned by her no-good, womanizing, alcoholic husband. Things could hardly be worse. A chance encounter convinces her to make use of the psychic gift she has had since childhood, but suppressed. Now she puts up a sign for psychic readings in her front yard, and the fun really begins.
Jimmy her husband comes in and out of her life, drinking and blowing up unpredictably. Wonderful and terrible memories surface as the book moves easily between the present and Aletta's troubled childhood. The locals don't necessarily cotton to having a psychic reader in their small Bible-belt town. Aletta is painfully estranged from her embittered mother. Bible-thumping church-folk demonstrate on her front lawn. What next?
Will Aletta get back together with Jimmy? Will she learn to make it on her own? Will she make peace with her own childhood? And, is this psychic gift for real? You will just have to read the book to find out. And, you should!
Author Dayna Dunbar has a wonderful gift for bringing characters to life and making their inner worlds believable. She develops her story so skillfully, so empathetically, that you will even have a little sympathy for the villains. The book is extremely well-written, and it is also warm-hearted and uplifting. Once you pick it up, it's hard to put down. I recommend this one highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.
Rating: 4
Summary: a good womanly read
Comment: With the whole state of Oklahoma wildly celebrating America's bicentennial in a never-endingly hot summer, Aletta waddles around in her rented house right on Main Street where the Fourth of July parade is passing her by, her three children are who-know-where, her husband is off either drinking himself silly or with another woman, & she's broke.
During a parade, while selling lemonade, an out-of-town woman offers her sympathy for her condition & touches her hand. Aletta clearly sees the woman in a traffic accident, & gives her a warning. When the woman returns the next day to thank her, Aletta finally figures out how to save her own life
Rebeccasreads recommends THE SAINTS AND SINNERS OF OKAY COUNTY as both hilarious & poignant, a brash & courageous womanly tale, steeped in the earthy wisdom of America's rural heartland.
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Title: Last Call (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by LAURA PEDERSEN ISBN: 0345461916 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Going to Bend : A Novel by DIANE HAMMOND ISBN: 038550943X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ISBN: 0066211247 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty ISBN: 1401300316 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Second Chair: A Novel by John T. Lescroart ISBN: 0525947752 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 26 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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