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Belle of the Bayou - Goodman, Joanna - Paperback - Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1998
- ISBN
- 9780889841987
- Book Title
- Belle of the Bayou
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Belle of the Bayou is a satirical odyssey which takes Arabella Slominski Boot from Montreal to Lafayette, Louisiana in hot pursuit of her own liberation. At forty years old, all Arabella wants is to get in touch with her spiritual side and raise her sensitive, effeminate son in a stable family environment. Unfortunately for her she's married to Roman Boot -- a man who wears Listermint as cologne, thinks foreplay is a golf stroke and sucks up Arabella's spirituality like a vacuum. She resigns herself to these circumstances, making do with her modest lot in life, until one day Roman oversteps all bounds of propriety. Propelled by a sudden ''flare-up'' of feminism, Arabella and her son flee the confines of an unsatisfying life and head south to board with her aging mother. En route to independence, Arabella falls in love with an aging jazz Musician who lives out of his saxophone case. Joe 'Hooty' Birmingham is a nomad who lives for the moment. Arabella craves security and long-term commitment. While trying to discover some sort of methodology with which to reconcile their lifestyles, Arabella's son careens into puberty and her mother into bitter old age. Added to the demands of her full-time job at Le T'is Cajun Gazette , there simply isn't time for meditation or introspection, which, her palm-reading best friend Gypsi claims, are the two basic prerequisites for inner peace. But there is time for a little voodoo. With a few jabs into a 99-cent Bourbon Street voodoo doll, Arabella wreaks havoc on the remains of her ex-husband's existence. But the revenge is bittersweet. Arabella, accustomed to having no power at all, has suddenly acquired more than she can possibly manage. And just when she most desperately needs a glimpse into the future, her friend Gypsi's powers of palmistry are inconveniently skewed by menopause. Perhaps Hooty can teach her how to live for the moment and how to find joie de vivre .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0889841985
ISBN-13
9780889841987
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2310912
Product Key Features
Book Title
Belle of the Bayou
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
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Reviews
' Belle of the Bayou is a tumultuous and funny, yet underplayed novel which unfolds in quiet, marvelous prose that tastes faintly of Eliza Clark's Miss You Like Crazy . Broken into nearly independent stories that fit into a perfect whole, Belle of the Bayou makes for a fine debut.', 'It is the married woman's Thelma and Louise, but with a happy ending. Arabella is a true heroine of the nineties; she not only survives her complicated situation, but also learns to assert herself and to choose what she wants. If Belle of the Bayou is indeed a fable, its moral rings clear and triumphant.', ‘It is the married woman’s Thelma and Louise, but with a happy ending. Arabella is a true heroine of the nineties; she not only survives her complicated situation, but also learns to assert herself and to choose what she wants. If Belle of the Bayouis indeed a fable, its moral rings clear and triumphant.’, ‘Belle of the Bayouis a tumultuous and funny, yet underplayed novel which unfolds in quiet, marvelous prose that tastes faintly of Eliza Clark’s Miss You Like Crazy. Broken into nearly independent stories that fit into a perfect whole, Belle of the Bayoumakes for a fine debut.’, 'It is the married woman's Thelma and Louise, but with a happy ending. Arabella is a true heroine of the nineties; she not only survives her complicated situation, but also learns to assert herself and to choose what she wants. If Belle of the Bayouis indeed a fable, its moral rings clear and triumphant.', 'Belle of the Bayouis a tumultuous and funny, yet underplayed novel which unfolds in quiet, marvelous prose that tastes faintly of Eliza Clark's Miss You Like Crazy. Broken into nearly independent stories that fit into a perfect whole, Belle of the Bayoumakes for a fine debut.'
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1998
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