Georgia Bottoms
A Novel
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3.9 • 92 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.
Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off -- none of whom knows about the others.
But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him.
In George Bottoms, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sassy Southern belle Georgia has a lot of secrets: a rotation of gentleman callers with unique sexual needs, a mother with a tenuous hold on reality, and a lucrative (if dodgy) business of selling at a huge mark-up the folk art quilts she buys and passes off as her own creations. But then 9/11 comes along, Georgia's world of naughty innocence is changed forever, and all the plates she once spun so effortlessly in midair come crashing down: her illegitimate black son shows up on her doorstep; her best friend and town mayor, Krystal, loses her job; her demented mom and drunken brother become increasingly errant; and one of her boyfriends a spiteful preacher has an unfortunate attack of conscience and intends to publicly confess his affair and simultaneously condemn poor Georgia to hell. Childress (One Mississippi) is sassy magnolia lit's Truman Capote sharply observant, unrelentingly honest, and downright hilarious and his Georgia peach is the freshest bad girl to rise from the South since Scarlett O'Hara.
Customer Reviews
Loved it! Quick read.
The images of southern life in a small town where everybody knows everybody and the parishioners at re First Baptist Church opposed air conditioning for the church are so vivid. My only complaint is the book ends. I loved the relationship between Georgia and Brother- it's amazing how much it echos my own relationship with my brother. Great story. You have to pay attention throughout to catch the subtext but in the end it's all made plain.
Borgia Bottoms
Well, it was a well written book but it wasn't one of my favorites. There was nothing exciting about the book to me however it was an easy read.
Shallow
Thought I found a provocative book but instead it was very shallow.