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Land of Mango Sunsets : A Novel by Dorothea Benton Frank (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060892382
ISBN-139780060892388
eBay Product ID (ePID)57050901
Product Key Features
Book TitleLand of Mango Sunsets : a Novel
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary, Romance / General
Publication Year2007
GenreFiction
AuthorDorothea Benton Frank
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-061205
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisMiriam Swanson is thoroughly provoked and she doesn't mind letting you know. Twenty years ago her husband Charles, a powerful attorney with one of the last remaining white shoe law firms in New York, dumped her for a younger woman nearly half her age. Obviously it happens all the time and it's not exactly news, but what's fascinating is to watch Miriam evolve from pathetic to spectacular. Perfectly proper Miriam's great metamorphosis results from the arrival of a little redneck school teacher, Liz, from Nowhere, Alabama. Liz is Miriam's tenant (along with Kevin, a 50 something gay man who is Miriam's best friend). Liz is everything that Miriam is not: young and thin. They constantly clash until the one night when they realize that they are both dating the same man, the same married man. They attack the Lothario and become friends. Soon after she and her new "family" become involved in a crime that leads them back to Charleston. Miriam is confronted with her past when an invitation to her son's wedding comes in the mail. Liz and Kevin help her lose weight, change her look, and get a face lift. She is ready to wow her exhusband when circumstances arise that force her to reevaluated her choices. Is Charles worth it or do her friends, her new family, need her more?, Miriam Swanson is thoroughly provoked and she doesn't mind letting you know. Twenty years ago her husband Charles, a powerful attorney with one of the last remaining white shoe law firms in New York, dumped her for a younger woman nearly half her age. Obviously it happens all the time and it's not exactly news, but what's fascinating is to watch Miriam evolve from pathetic to spectacular. Perfectly proper Miriam's great metamorphosis results from the arrival of a little red neck school teacher, Liz, from Nowhere, Alabama. Liz is Miriam's tenant along with Kevin, a 50 something gay man who is Miriam's best friend. Liz is everything that Miriam is not: young and thin. They constantly clash. Then finally, she meets a man named Harrison who changes her into a gal named Mellie. Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured life as a Manhattan quasi socialite while she thirsts, no, starves for recognition. How did she become what she hates the most and what does she endure to realize it? And where are the answers? It takes a few spins, dips and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets her head on straight. Then in a whoosh she's off to see her mother in the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
LC Classification NumberPS3556.R3338L36 2007
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