A Scrambling After Circumstance

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ISBN-10:

0140153993

ISBN-13:

9780140153996

Released: Nov 01, 1991
Publisher: Penguin
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Related ISBN: 9780670835348

Description:

With literary legerdemain, first novelist Denham wins readers' affection for her cranky, bedridden, demanding narrator Eula B., whose refrain, as she lives out her last days amid the plastic geraniums in her daughter's trailer, is that the old ways were better. That she's right only makes her harder to love; the reader's fondness for her is evidence of the author's prowess as she creates a seamless picture of a life in rural Mississippi that nearly spanned this century. Until two strokes forced her to move in with her daughter, Eula B. toiled--contentedly--at the one place that mattered to her--the dirt farm that had belonged to her mother's father. Those many years are gradually revealed as Eula B. recalls events of her earlier life with her much-loved Mama and Papa, and her brothers, admirable Ollie and angry Q.C., who ``seemed to bruise and scald everything he touched,'' according to her sister Mattie. No sentiment blurs Eula B.'s sharply focused last efforts to make sense of her fi

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