Morning Glory
LaVyrle Spencer
On the eve of World War II, two people are brought together by fate and discover an unexpected passion
Tall,
dark and handsome Will Parker has served time for the killing of a
Texas prostitute, but keeps losing jobs as his reputation becomes known.
In the small town of Whitney, Ga., at the beginning of WW II, he
answers the advertisement of a pregnant widow and mother of two, the
abused and reclusive Eleanor Dinsmore, who is looking for a husband.
Soon in love with ostensibly plain, bedraggled Ellie, Parker dotes on
her two boys, and works to support the family. Fittingly for this sort
of bucolic idyll, Will and Ellie, despite their rudimentary educations,
love books and develop a special friendship with wise old Miss Beasley,
the local librarian. Alas, brazen and rapacious Lula Peak, the town
floozie, sets her sights on Will, waylaying him in the library;
meantimes, Lula is blackmailing her lover, the cowardly Harley Overmire,
who is no friend of Will. The clearly drawn characters fulfill their
imperativesincluding Will, who becomes a war heroand all is neatly and
pleasingly resolved. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
Tall,
dark and handsome Will Parker has served time for the killing of a
Texas prostitute, but keeps losing jobs as his reputation becomes known.
In the small town of Whitney, Ga., at the beginning of WW II, he
answers the advertisement of a pregnant widow and mother of two, the
abused and reclusive Eleanor Dinsmore, who is looking for a husband.
Soon in love with ostensibly plain, bedraggled Ellie, Parker dotes on
her two boys, and works to support the family. Fittingly for this sort
of bucolic idyll, Will and Ellie, despite their rudimentary educations,
love books and develop a special friendship with wise old Miss Beasley,
the local librarian. Alas, brazen and rapacious Lula Peak, the town
floozie, sets her sights on Will, waylaying him in the library;
meantimes, Lula is blackmailing her lover, the cowardly Harley Overmire,
who is no friend of Will. The clearly drawn characters fulfill their
imperativesincluding Will, who becomes a war heroand all is neatly and
pleasingly resolved. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
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Jahr:
1988
Verlag:
Grafton
Sprache:
english
ISBN 10:
0246135867
ISBN 13:
9780246135865
Datei:
EPUB, 429 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1988
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