Big Stone Gap She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Suddenly, she finds herself juggling tw
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| Title | : | Big Stone Gap |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375504036 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2000-04-04 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : 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 favorite 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." 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 think
It's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is content with her life of doing errands and negotiating small details-until she discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life. Suddenly, she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals, conducting a no-holds-barred family feud, planning a life-changing journey to the Old Country, and helping her best friend, the high-school band director, design a halftime show to dazzle Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed Hollywood movie star who's coming through town on a campaign stump with her husband, senatorial candidate John Warner.Filled with big-time eccentrics and small-town shenanigans, Big Stone
She makes friends with those in the movement, and the speeches she hears about black empowerment starts to radicalize her. The writing is near flawless, taking you inside Bird's world, and the plot is well thought-out and captivating. I think most importantly it's given me structured ways to approach what I write and think about what I'm communicating. On page 28, for example, the author describes equity premium backwards, ironically since equity premium is purportedly the main subject of the book. Only half of this book (hardback) is printed in color.
Akira's creative inspiration and cool art style makes this book a standout and i recommend it to anyone who enjoys action, adventure and humor. My most favorite are by Robert Sabuda. John has gone back home to get his grain mill running so that he can build his life back up after having the mill burn twice. Her observation that music and repetition are integrally linked and are biologically rooted is the chief focus of this academic
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