Quite a year for plums, a novel, by Bailey White
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Quite a year for plums, a novel, by Bailey White
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Quite a year for plums
Oclc number
37801380
Responsibility statement
by Bailey White
Sub title
a novel
Summary
The novel centers around serious, studious Roger, a peanut pathologist studying the effects of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus on the local southern Georgia cash crop. Since his wife, Ethel, left him for a goateed guitar player, Roger has become the unlikely love object of half the town's eligible bachelorettes. But when Roger falls for Della, a "flighty" bird artist with an aversion to her material possessions, his infatuation engenders the mother-hen-like concern of Hilma and Meade, retired schoolteachers who share his horticultural enthusiasms. Meanwhile, Ethel's mother, Louise, has moved in with a vacationing typographer whose impassioned diatribes against the disappearance of the classic typefaces fit neatly into her own wacky attempts to attract the attention of erotically charged space aliens
Target audience
adult
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