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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553274465
ISBN-139780553274462
eBay Product ID (ePID)183290
Product Key Features
Book TitleSouthern Discomfort
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1983
TopicMystery & Detective / Cozy, General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
GenreFiction
AuthorRita Mae Brown
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight5.1 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisOnly Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle , could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort .Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama-a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage-until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter.Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good), Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of emotions caused by her scandalous love.How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful human drama-an intense and exuberant affair of the heart., Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle , could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort . Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama--a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage--until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter. Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good), Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of emotions caused by her scandalous love. How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful human drama--an intense and exuberant affair of the heart.