Standing in the Rainbow: A Novel
Written by Fannie Flagg
Narrated by Kate Reading
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Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers.
The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."
Fannie Flagg
Birmingham (EE:UU), 1944. Actriz, comediante y escritora estadounidense, conocida como panelista semirregular en el concurso Match Game (1973-1982) y por la novela que escribió en 1987, Tomates verdes fritos, adaptada al cine en 1991. La película obtuvo dos nominaciones a los Óscar, una de ellas por el guion adaptado por Flagg. Animada por su padre, Flagg se interesó en la escritura y la actuación a una edad temprana. Durante la década de 1960 Flagg comenzó a escribir parodias para el club nocturno de Nueva York Upstairs at the Downstairs. Al sustituir a uno de los artistas, que había enfermado, llamó la atención del creador de Candid Camera, Allen Funt. Poco después, invitaron a Flagg a escribir y actuar en el programa. En 1978, ganó un premio por un relato que había presentado en la Conferencia de Escritores de Santa Bárbara. El trabajo se convirtió en la base de la novela Daisy Fay y el hombre de los milagros, que se publicó en 1981 y permaneció en la lista de best sellers del New York Times durante diez semanas. Su novela más conocida, Tomates verdes fritos, se publicó en 1987 y permaneció en la lista de best sellers del New York Times durante treinta y seis semanas, aunque también ha escrito otros como Bienvenida a este mundo, pequeña (1998), Standing in the Rainbow (2002), A Redbird Christmas (2004), Me muero por ir al cielo (2006), Todavía sueño contigo (2010) y The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion (2013).
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