Standing In The Rainbow (Paperback, New Ed)

In this companion novel to Welcome To The World, Baby Girl, Fannie Flagg revisits the residents of Elmwood Springs, tracing their lives and loves from 1948 to 2000. Elmwood Springs is a small town in Southern Missouri where everybody knows everybody else. As the story begins, the Second World War has ended and the mood is cheerful. Neighbour Dorothy continues to broadcast her successful radio programme from her own living room and the rest of the state is able to listen in on the antics of her wayward children. One day the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers arrive in town, and before they're gone again, they've left one member in town and taken a resident with them. Betty Rae Oatman is the member who stays to enjoy the simple life of a small town, but who soon finds herself in the biggest house of them all. Fannie Flagg's books are perfect feelgood reading and she certainly delivers once again, combining comedy, romance and excellent storylines to produce yet another rich and poignant tapestry of small-town America. (Kirkus UK)

The time: 1946-2000. The Place: Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. World War II has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being - mostly - embraced. At the heart of the novel is the inimitable Neighbour Dorothy, broadcasting daily, with Mother Smith on the organ, from her front room, via the tower in her backyard, to an eager, and at times lonely, audience across the state - who often hear more than her own family would like about the antics of wayward son Bobby and adolescent Anna Lee. And meet the Oatman Family, white Southern Gospel Singers at a pharmaceutical convention in Memphis, where they blow the place away; timid, little Betty Raye Oatman who can't stand the life and ends up in a Governor's mansion; Hamm Sparks, a super-salesman everyone likes and trusts, who soon sells all of Missouri; and the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground and the Funeral King.; not to mention the changing face of small-town America.

Humour and poignancy, wit and nostalgia, Fannie Flagg mixes the cocktail of small-town American life to perfection.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	July 2003
Authors:	Fannie Flagg
Dimensions:	199 x 130 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	493
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-944893-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-09-944893-9
Barcode:	9780099448938

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