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West, Kingsley A Time for Vengeance by West, Kingsley
New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1961 First Edition Hardcover/Ex-Library Fair
Fair/No Jacket c. 1961, tan bds., 190pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, covers rubbed-discolored-soiled, page ends yellowed-soiled, some pages creased to corners, some soiling to a few pages, some crinkling and half moons from page turning, binding good)
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West, Tom Botched Brand by West, Tom
New York E. P. Dutton & Company 1949 First Edition Hardcover/Ex-Library R ... Good
Reading Copy Only/No Jacket c. 1949, yellow/tan deco.bds., 223pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, covers soiled-discolored, page ends yellowed-soiled, some pages creased to corners, some soiling to pages, binding good)
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Michael Lee West Crazy Ladies: A Novel
Harper Perennial 20000401 0060977744 / 9780060977740 H Very Good
0060977744 0060977744 BCE. Amazon Review Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is rivaled by a fictional sibling: Michael Lee West's Crazy Ladies. West's tale of wild women down South is faster and snappier than Wells's thick bayou prose gumbo, but it has some of the same virtues--a cast of wacky characters, lively regional dialogue, and a satisfying multigenerational time frame. The scene shifts from 1932 to 1972, and from Crystal Falls, Tennessee, to New Orleans to hippie Frisco and L.A., though it's mostly rooted in Tennessee, where sunflower gardens contain deep secrets and kids can light up whole summers with lightning bugs in a jar. The crazy lady who starts the story is Gussie, vexed by her ornery first daughter, Dorothy. When Dorothy's kid sister, Clancy Jane, comes of age, the real ruckus begins, thanks partly to Gussie's helpless preference for sweet Clancy Jane over dour Dorothy, who calls Gussie "Mother Dear" from age 6 on. Sweet Clancy Jane turns out to be headstrong, too--she runs off in a poodle skirt with Hart, who works on oil rigs, Esso stands, and the odd Cajun girl on the side. And then the '60s hit, bringing on Gussie's grandkids, Bitsy and Violet, plus some jolting social changes reminiscent of Lisa Alther's Kinflicks. Though it's spiced with horror (rape, crib death, one character buried alive), the dominant tone is breezy humor. At one point, the sister with "thighs that could break a man's neck" catches her husband and her shapelier sister "wrapped around each other like stripes on a candy cane." Not a magisterial novel, but a really good read. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly The characters in West's promising first novel are richly eccentric and they exist in a colorfully evoked setting. However, there's little tension in this saga of a family in small-town Crystal Falls, Tenn. Though the story begins with the shock of a murder and the attempts of Miss Gussie Hamilton, resident matriarch, to conceal it, the murder has little importance in the ensuing narrative, even when the body is unearthed decades later. Meanwhile, Miss Gussie, her three daughters and their daughters endure various dramatic vicissitudes, including a fair share of illegitimate births, betrayals and divorces. (Three generations of daughters reunite under Miss Gussie's roof). Miss Gussie's daughter Dorothy is the only truly "crazy" lady among them: her whining sibling rivalry blossoms into self-absorption and culminates in nasty, dangerous paranoia. The extremity of her neurosis seems unwarranted unless one accepts her as a bad seed, but she remains the family troublemaker until she receives her well-deserved comeuppance. Cultural referents, such as pop song titles and lyrics, keep the time frame intact and convey the cadence of life in the rural South, and though readers may become somewhat exasperated by Miss Gussie's flaky kin, they should enjoy West's portraiture of women who triumph over the problems that fate and their own difficult personalities bring into their lives. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Morris L. West Lazarus
St Martins Mass Market Paper 0312924607 / 9780312924607 PAPERBACK Good
0312924607 0312924607 Mass Market Paperback. Good. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid copy. General Used condition.
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Morris L. West Lazarus
St Martins Mass Market Paper 0312924607 / 9780312924607 PAPERBACK Good
0312924607 0312924607 Mass Market Paperback. Good. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid copy. General Used condition.
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Morris L. West Lazarus
New York St Martins Pr 1990 0312043392 / 9780312043391 First U.S. Edition/first Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Fair
0312043392 0312043392 Fair/Good c. 1990, black/maroon bds. w/d.j., 293pp., (lt.shelf wear, bds.slightly bowed, page ends soiled, d.j. taped to bds., rubbed)
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