Southern Folk - Two Tall Tales & Many Miracles

ISBN-13: 9781484813959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str.

Rl Rast

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RL Rast's Southern Folk series follows the residents of Toff Boulevard in Mountain Brook, Alabama, an upscale neighborhood in the contemporary American South. From the Alabama courtrooms and country clubs to the resort towns of the gulf coast, Southern Folk bends reality to right a plethora of injustices and inconveniences in a journey down the rabbit hole of the author's imagination. Southern Folk-Two Tall Tales & Many Miracles offers the first two books in one volume. In Southern Folk-A Kidnapping on the Boulevard, wealthy Cory Farnsworth of Toff Boulevard and his beloved housekeeper, Miss Hattie Cornflower, known to one and all as Aunt Hattie, leap into action when the entire Conner family down the street disappear in a mysterious kidnapping. But their plans are delayed when they detour by the federal courthouse to check on developments concerning popular local barbequer, Rolly Jones, now fallen into the clutches of the overly-particular Judge Horace Blindbat. They arrive to see Rolly being marched away in shackles to spend his remaining years in a cold dank cell for "misreporting on the slabs," a small tax mishap that lands poor Rolly in jail ... while far from the scene and on her own, kidnapped Doris Conner escapes the salt mines in a distant land and leads an army of pitchfork-wielding peasants on a rampage across the Siberian tundra, while her self-absorbed husband, Ted, languishes in a bat-filled gulag, suspending disbelief with a wide cast of characters and settings where anything is possible. The why and wherefore of events becomes evident as Ted searches for clues and romance with comic absurdity in a world on the brink of collapse, thanks to Blindbat and his obsession with Southern shenanigans. The answers to all questions ever asked in the history of the world are revealed in the final chapter as Farnsworth and Aunt Hattie leap to the rescue, flying around town and laughing with the windows rolled up so the riff-raff won't think they're laughing at them. Southern Folk-The Belle of Birmingham highlights self-deception in the midst of an epic breakup, the divorce of an unforgettable Southern belle and her irresistibly entertaining husband, a wealthy old school New England Yankee fleeing a lifetime of family drama in the Deep South. Heartbreakingly poignant and laced with humor, The Belle of Birmingham will steal your heart in a glamorous spoof as the Lamberts of Toff Boulevard reunite on the sugar white beaches of Destin and Seaside. Humiliated in a financial scandal, wealthy and repressed banker, Ethan Lambert, files for divorce from his artistic and flamboyant Southern wife, the keeper of the Southern-torch, Carolina Tidewater Mushmouth of the Alabama Mushmouths. She is the South, and Ethan falls in love with her over and over. Long overshadowed and confused by her artistic genius and mood swings, he flees to the coast and buys a penthouse on the beach and updates his look. Branching out, he sails the gulf with billionaire oil tycoon, Hank Whitt, and his globe-trotting wife, Marie. But when his family shows up unexpectedly, his new life is thrown into chaos and he is forced to make peace with the past. He sinks into his own soup when confronted by his wife's long-time crush, scene-stealing Harvey Hinkle, a roughneck mechanic turned millionaire and our hero's rival. He bursts onto the scene, the perfect antagonist to Ethan's protagonist, and the vivid remembrances of a new friend capture a time gone by ... "It's over now ... but there were times when the moonlight fell through the lattice, nights when the air was so heavy with scent, the gardenias that grew near the porch, the blooms weighing down the old magnolia that shaded the house, filling the air with all things once known by greater men, and the sachet that lingered in her clothes. It brought me to my knees, made me fall down and weep, something about the bayou, the whippoorwills and silver moss, and the magic we once believed."