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The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes

Margaret Jean Langstaff

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Description:In this very funny and surprising story set in today’s “New South,” a ten year-old boy’s efforts to avoid eating stewed prunes for breakfast sets in motion a series of calamitous events that wreaks havoc on his entire family, himself included. Jerrold is a 10 year-old stitch with parents and relatives to match. As the saying goes, “The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.” The characters of Jerrold, his Aunty Gin, his mother Sharleen and father Randolph (and even the family Yorkie, Suzie—“pookie-pook”) are among the most colorful and memorable you will ever meet. Their personalities and the events of the story will entertain you long after you finish reading and perhaps will make you reconsider similar situations and circumstances in your own life in which a simple and seemingly unimportant act launched a host of hilarious unintended consequences.Both a window on the dynamics and web of interlocking relationships and mutual responsibilities that are common to all families, it is also a shrewd analysis of how “truth” is used and abused as a justification for all manner of nefarious activity that is fundamentally selfish and at odds with the self-sacrifice necessary to hold a family together. But this description is way too serious and unjust to the surreal and uproarious comedy at the heart of the story.Couched in the everyday speech of the contemporary south, and told primarily and ironically from Jerrold’s imperfect point of view, it quickly becomes clear that our young hero is a modern Tom Sawyer—and thereby hangs a tale (and his tail too).About the AuthorMargaret Langstaff has written more than twenty books, both under her own name and as a ghostwriter for others, and countless feature articles and book reviews for prominent national periodicals, such as the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, and the L.A. Times Book Review and Business Page. She is a former member of the National Book Critics Circle and former board member of the Book Industry Study Group.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes. To get started finding The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In this very funny and surprising story set in today’s “New South,” a ten year-old boy’s efforts to avoid eating stewed prunes for breakfast sets in motion a series of calamitous events that wreaks havoc on his entire family, himself included. Jerrold is a 10 year-old stitch with parents and relatives to match. As the saying goes, “The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.” The characters of Jerrold, his Aunty Gin, his mother Sharleen and father Randolph (and even the family Yorkie, Suzie—“pookie-pook”) are among the most colorful and memorable you will ever meet. Their personalities and the events of the story will entertain you long after you finish reading and perhaps will make you reconsider similar situations and circumstances in your own life in which a simple and seemingly unimportant act launched a host of hilarious unintended consequences.Both a window on the dynamics and web of interlocking relationships and mutual responsibilities that are common to all families, it is also a shrewd analysis of how “truth” is used and abused as a justification for all manner of nefarious activity that is fundamentally selfish and at odds with the self-sacrifice necessary to hold a family together. But this description is way too serious and unjust to the surreal and uproarious comedy at the heart of the story.Couched in the everyday speech of the contemporary south, and told primarily and ironically from Jerrold’s imperfect point of view, it quickly becomes clear that our young hero is a modern Tom Sawyer—and thereby hangs a tale (and his tail too).About the AuthorMargaret Langstaff has written more than twenty books, both under her own name and as a ghostwriter for others, and countless feature articles and book reviews for prominent national periodicals, such as the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, and the L.A. Times Book Review and Business Page. She is a former member of the National Book Critics Circle and former board member of the Book Industry Study Group.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes. To get started finding The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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