RejoiceAuthor House, 12.06.2008 - 248 Seiten A sometimes hilarious three-generational clash, of values plays out in REJOICE, a novel about a conventional mother, an uncompromising hippie daughter, and a devil-may-care granddaughter raised in an idealistic commune. The mother finally details her struggle in a memoir which she pays her granddaughter to tout on a do-it-yourself book tour. The granddaughter is less interested in the book than she is in her gypsy hippie encounters with the pony-tailed know-it-all who is pursuing her. Soon her casual attitude toward life is put to the test when she falls in love with the dutiful son of a straight-laced Mexican widow. Do we hear wedding bells or fire sirens in the distance? |
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Seite 112 - I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
Seite 111 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 27 - Nothing but ruin, utter ruin, to the North, to the South, to the East, to the West, will follow the prosecution of this contest.
Seite 188 - And what was she going to do with the rest of her life?
Seite 81 - Don't you talk to me like that!" "Don't you talk to me like that
Seite 21 - If I'd known it was going to be formal, I'd have worn a tie.
Seite 149 - I'm not going to miss it for you or anyone else.
Seite 114 - Crawford sat down next to his wife and put his arm around her. They were both silent. Then he paced the floor for a while. Finally he sat down again. "Listen,
Seite 20 - Betsy had a sinking feeling that this was going to be a long evening.