Flatsigned by Dallas on title page. Hardbound book in crisp, immaculate condition including dust jacket in mylar. There is a light trace of whitish dust or glue visible along the spine in front atop the quarter binding in blue cloth.

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Title: Buster Midnight's Cafe
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394576519
ISBN 13: 9780394576510
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Two miners' daughters from Butte, Montana, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird, now restauranteurs, reveal the truth behind the scandalous Love Triangle murder, a crime that involved their childhood friend, May Anna Kovacks--aka Hollywood star Marion Street

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YA-- A story of three tough, courageous women who stuck together. Effa Commander is now in her 70s but she vividly remembers her youth, growing up in Butte, Montana with her best friends Whippy Bird and May Anna. May Anna eventually goes to Hollywood and becomes a famous movie star and is involved in a notorious murder trial after her boyfriend, the heavyweight boxer Buster Midnight, kills a British actor, ending both the actor's career and his own. May Anna never forgets her friends, however, and sends flowers when Effa Commander's babies die and she loses her husband in the war. Whippy Bird's husband dies in that same war. Effa Commander paints a colorful, humorous, almost innocent picture of Montana, prohibition, and early Hollywood. A book that is truly offbeat but appealing. --Diana C. Hirsh, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, MD

Narrator Effa Commander's rollicking reminiscences about movie star Marion Street and her devoted lover, champion boxer Buster Midnight, are recounted in a sharp and snappy voice that captures the reader's interest on the very first page of this amusing novel. Effa Commander and lifelong friend Whippy Bird shared childhood, adolescence, Prohibition and many other experiences with Marion and Buster in their hometown of Butte, Mont. They also know much more about the Hollywood scandal called the "Love Triangle Murder" than ever got into the papers, and Effa Commander has decided to vindicate her friends' misrepresented lives. Dallas's first novel depicts a remarkable cluster of enduring friendships that may strike the modern urban reader as implausible, but accurately reflect the flavor of a small town and its inbred relationships. If the denouement seems predictable, Dallas, whose work calls to mind Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe , is nonetheless a stylist to be reckoned with.
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