Lucinderella
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
This comic third novel in our Berry Fleming series centers on Lucinda, a local girl-makes-good, who returns on her psychoanalyst’s suggestion to Fredricksville, Georgia, in order to “find herself.” A successful author and playwright in New York City, she poses a distinct problem for the residents of The Homestead—a large, communal home left to any member of the Telfair family who wishes to stay—since all of the characters in her novels and plays are based upon her relatives’ antics. And the members of the Telfair clan, for their part, prefer to keep their private comings and goings out of the public eye. Hustlers, hoteliers, swindlers and drunkards, bankers and bank robbers, madams and prostitutes, northern aristocrats and southern gentry, and plain old-fashioned working people are all in Lucinderella, enlivened by the deliciously satirical eye of one of the South’s most extraordinary novelists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Third in a series of Fleming novels being reissued in quick succession, this comic gem is narrated by Clamp Spignor, member of an extended, eccentric family who live at Telfair, the ancestral home in Fredericksburg, Ga. Cousin Lucinda is returning home from New York after two bestselling novels and a Broadway smashall based on her quirky kinto get back to "reality.'' Clamp, and practically everybody else, are baffled by reality, even occasionally offended by it. Nobody, for example, speaks of Mrs. Mooneyham, aka ``Madam Ace,'' another ``cousin'' who rents her ancestral ``home'' and who spends her time railing against modern permissiveness: ``How are you going to charge for something . . . when everybody is trying their best to give it away for nothing?'' Then there is one-armed hotelier Uncle Otis, who tends to hire a lot of one-armed help. Fleming's twitting of Southern folkways is sharp but affectionate. Except for a bungled bank robbery, nothing much happens here and even when Clamp falls in love with Lucindaor thinks he doesthe situation goes awry. But Fleming's keen eye and rich characterization in this novel (a BOMC selection in the author's heyday) will remind readers of Eudora Welty.
