Hug Dancing
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Shelby Hearon's excellent twelfth novel opens, "And they lived happily ever after." It ends, "Once upon a time." The opening and closing lines echo many of the themes of the novel. The book opens with... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0394586522
ISBN13:9780394586526
Release Date:October 1991
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Length:243 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"
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Pastor's wife rekindles old flame
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Cile Tait is married to a staid and rigid Presbyterian minister. Although not sure of her beliefs, Cile attempts to be a good wife and to serve her husband and the church. When she comes across her old high school boyfriend Andy, they begin an affair and eventually plan to divorce their respective spouses and marry one another. In some ways, the announcement is ridiculously (and somewhat unrealistically) easy. None of their four kids seems to have a problem with their parents' marriages breaking up and the congregation waves Cile a world-weary goodbye without any of the recriminations which one might expect. In other ways, the breakup seems to cause problems as far as Andy's farmland and Cile's independence is concerned. The book has a lot of flashbacks which are sometimes hard to distinguish from the current action. The book is saved by the wry commentaries on life in small-town Texas and on the greed which seems to be at the center of so many events of the 90's.
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