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An edition of Angry housewives eating bon bons (2003)

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

A Novel

  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

From her sensational sleeper hit Patty Jane's House of Curl to her heartwarming novel Welcome to the Great Mysterious, Lorna Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere by skillfully balancing hilarity with pathos, and bittersweet insights with heartwarming truths. Now she returns to her beloved, eccentric stomping ground of small-town Minnesota where the most eclectic, and engaging group of women you'll ever meet share love, loss, and laughter.Sometimes life is like a bad waiter--it serves you exactly what you don't want. The women of Freesia Court have come together at life's table, fully convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together--the foundation of a book group they call AWEB--Angry Wives Eating Bon Bons--an unofficial "club" that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline.The five women each have a story of their own to tell. There's Faith, the newcomer, a lonely housewife and mother of twins, a woman who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that good posture and an attitude can let you get away with anything; Merit, the shy, quiet doctor's wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a thoughtful, wise woman with a wonderful laugh as "deep as Santa Claus's with a cold" who knows the greatest gifts appear after life's fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, activist, adventurer, social changer, a tiny, spitfire of a woman who looks trouble straight in the eye and challenges it to arm wrestle.Holding on through forty eventful years--through the swinging Sixties, the turbulent Seventies, the anything-goes Eighties, the nothing's-impossible Nineties--the women will take the plunge into the chaos that inevitably comes to those with the temerity to be alive and kicking. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons depicts a special slice of American life, of stay-at-home days and new careers, children and grandchildren, bold beginnings and second chances, in which the power of forgiveness, understanding, and the perfectly timed giggle fit is the CPR that mends broken hearts and shattered dreams.Once again Lorna Landvik leaves you laughing and crying, as she reveals perhaps the greatest truth: that there is nothing like the saving grace of best friends.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Fawcett
Language
English
Pages
512

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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: A Novel
March 29, 2005, Fawcett
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
2004, Random House Publishing Group
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Angry housewives eating bon bons
2004, Ballantine Books
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Angry housewives eating bon bons
2003, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Angry housewives eating bon bons
Angry housewives eating bon bons
2003, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
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Angry housewives eating bon bons
2003, Thorndike Press
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First Sentence

"A FULLER BRUSH salesman had the unfortunate task of trying to sell his wares to the women of Freesia Court during the fifth day of a March cold snap."

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
512
Dimensions
6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9419103M
ISBN 10
0345475690
ISBN 13
9780345475695
OCLC/WorldCat
58599856
Library Thing
15672
Goodreads
16249

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First Sentence

"A FULLER BRUSH salesman had the unfortunate task of trying to sell his wares to the women of Freesia Court during the fifth day of a March cold snap."

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