World around Midnight - Hardcover

Griffith, Patricia

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399135901 ISBN 13: 9780399135903

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1991

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Reluctantly accepting the editorial helm of the smalltown newspaper run by her family in Midnight, Texas, Dinah Reynolds finds herself involved in the people and politics of a world she thought she had left behind

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From Publishers Weekly:

Just off the southern tip of the Dallas-Fort Worth "metroplex," Midnight is the fictional small town where 40ish Dinah Reynolds returns upon her father's death to serve as temporary editor of the local newspaper. Her stay is meant to be short and uneventful--but turns out to be neither. A host of strange events conspire to disorient and detain her: a semi-celebrity is killed in a plane crash; Dinah's husband leaves her for a frequently disabled motorist; her 83-year-old grandmother decides to marry another resident of her nursing home; most of the town cats begin to disappear; and the end of the world is predicted to begin in (where else?) Midnight. Griffith ( Tennessee Blue ; The Future Is Not What It Used to Be ) succeeds with grace and humor both in connecting these odd and discomfiting events and in making them believable. Reminiscent of Larry McMurtry and Dan Jenkins, her entertaining novel gives us a rollicking view of Texas eccentricity.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Welcome to Midnight, a small town just outside Dallas, population about 3000. Meet Dinah Reynolds, who returns to Midnight after her father's death to settle his affairs. Get involved with Dinah's multitude of problems: a love-struck 83-year-old grandmother; an illiterate, unfaithful daughter-in-law; a sexy, long-lost love; a straying husband. Prepare to laugh often, for the wry humor permeating this novel is infectious. Recommended for most libraries.
- Dorothy Golden, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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