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Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Random House hardcover w/ DJ, 1990. Book is Fine, w/ clean text, binding tight enough to suggest it is unread. DJ is Fine, in protective mylar. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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- Title
- Buster Midnight's Cafe
- Author
- Dallas, Sandra
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394576519
- ISBN 13
- 9780394576510
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 17 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x5x1
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Reviews
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
Copyright 1990 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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