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Paula Wall

Autor de The Rock Orchard: A Novel

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One of the funniest prologue’s and openings of a novel I’ve ever read. Wall is a columnist (ala Erma Bombeck) for the Atlanta Constitution newspaper and The Rock Orchard is her first novel. Short, a fast read, interesting characters and pithy lines. Not the great American novel but plenty to enjoy.
 
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klandring | 15 reseñas más. | Nov 8, 2020 |
My mom passed this on saying it was "different". What needs to be recognized here is that different is not bad. I enjoyed the southern vs. northern aspect and in the end there were multiple happy endings so I liked it.
 
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whybehave2002 | 15 reseñas más. | Feb 4, 2015 |
A southern novel based in Tennessee which is humorous and quirky. The Wilde sisters are main characters with Kat and Pearle. Peale travels the world and moves back to open a whore house in town to draw in the wealthy. Funny how she recruits the help to renovate the house who all scared of their mothers and wives. Was not wild about the narrator; however, entertaining--not my style of reading.
 
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JudithDCollins | 6 reseñas más. | Nov 27, 2014 |
Five Points, Tennessee: where the whiskey is mellow and the women are strong.

Though this book is titled after several central characters, the stories center on most of the women of the town. There is a touch of Alice Hoffman's style in the writing, which lured me into thinking there would be a bit more magic in the tales, but in truth, the main magic is in the characters depicted in this small town, hit hard by the depression and Prohibition. There's pithiness, and grit there (you can tell from the very first sentence " The Lord giveth and most women piss it away.") But there also are some great characters (female and male) who evolve and age, taking their tones and tastes from the world around them. And though the individual characters and arcs drew me, I think what kept me coming back to the book (I had to put it aside for several ARCs that came in) was the way the making of whiskey was interwoven through the life of the characters and town. It was the livelihood of many, and when times became tough, the currency of life. As the author says: “A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited, or aged to perfection.” (pg. 180)

Liquor can be like moonshine quick, strong, and straight to your head, or like that fine whiskey which takes on the nuances of the world around it to become something more. This is a book shaped by whiskey,

Tags: set-in-the-south, taught-me-something, made-me-look-something-up, i-liked-it, will-look-for-more-by-this-author
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bookczuk | 6 reseñas más. | Oct 19, 2014 |

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Obras
7
Miembros
422
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#57,804
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
24
ISBNs
47
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2
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