A woman of independent means

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

A woman of independent means

Author:

Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe.

ISBN:

9780816167166

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

531 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Published in large print."

Summary:

Bess Steed Garner is born in 1899 and lives in Honey Grove, Texas. Her story, told through her letters spanning more than half a century, reveals a personality that is as vital as the landscape from which it springs. Bess's letters dramatize the fullness of a woman's life from childhood to old age, from marriage to heartache, from children to grandchildren. What emerges is a portrait of a woman so lively, so endearing, and ultimately, so captivating that it will touch the lives of all who share it. --Book jacket.

Subject(s):

Women -- Texas -- Fiction.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Hailey, E.	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

On the 20th anniversary of this beloved novel--"a portrait of a woman with all her frailties" ("The Christian Science Monitor")--comes the first-ever trade paperback edition--just in time for Mother's Day. Features a new Letter to the Reader. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A short way into this portrait of a Texas-bred lady--the book consists of her letters sent East or abroad from childhood to old age--one is immediately intrigued by what seems to be a satiric underbuzz. Lovely little Bess writes her husband-to-be in the first missive, in 1899, that she has seen to it that both will be on the same fourth:grade spelling team--all of which forecasts Bess' outsize talent for the management of other people's lives. Bess' prose style is serenely gracious, faintly violet-scented, but it becomes obvious that when problems are to be coped with, she can move quick as a newt: to establish, for example, an elderly relative in a nursing home, complete with furniture; to save her husband's business; or to speed a friend's marital separation. But as Bess' years pass--in tragedy (the death of her first husband and young son) and in love (three American courtiers and one exotic passion en passant in Italy)--one realizes that Bess is both bombazine and lace, and her tucked and gussied-up pensÉes flutter like standards. A delightful reading of large, splashy doings in the small pond of an endearingly lively, bossy, responsible, and much-loving lady. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.