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    Crazy Ladies
    Crazy Ladies
    Crazy Ladies
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    Crazy Ladies

    Written by Michael Lee West

    Narrated by Michael Lee West

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    A lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women--a story of love and laughter, pain and redemption.

    Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman who can handle any situation, she has her hands full with her two headstrong daughters who happen to be complete opposites -- dour Dorothy and sweet Clancy Jane. Hoping money will heal childhood wounds, Dorothy marries the owner of a five-and-dime, while Clancy Jane gets into a mess of trouble, running off with a randy tomcat who pumps gas at the Esso stand. And then there are Gussie's granddaughters, the smart but plain Violet and fancy-talking Bitsy -- a new generation whose lives will reflect a nation's tumultuous times. From Tennessee to New Orleans, from psychedelic San Francisco to a remote Southwestern desert ranch, this funny, poignant novel spans more than four decades as it vividly recounts the universal loves, sorrows, and joys of women's lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 17, 2006
    ISBN9780061135453
    Crazy Ladies
    Author

    Michael Lee West

    Michael Lee West is the author of Mad Girls in Love, Crazy Ladies, American Pie, She Flew the Coop, and Consuming Passions. She lives with her husband on a rural farm in Tennessee with three bratty Yorkshire terriers, a Chinese Crested, assorted donkeys, chickens, sheep, and African Pygmy goats. Her faithful dog Zap (above) was the inspiration for a character in the novel.

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    • 2/5
      This book follows three generations of Southern women. When I was half-way through I realized I'd read it before. It was okay for a summer book, but not great literature.
    • 4/5
      A very fully colored novel of some strong, nutty women ... beautifully developed characters in a novel that comes full circle in its scope.
    • 4/5
      In 1932, in a small town in Tennessee, a young woman mortally wounds a stranger who is attempting to rape her in her own home. She buries the victim, still alive, in her front yard and she and her husband tell no one. Three generations of women live in the small house over the next four decades. West's portraits of ordinary people--their anger, disappointment, pride and just plain foolishness--make for a compelling work.
    • 3/5
      I was expecting a funnier book and not so much tragedy, dysfunction and drama. Once I got in to the first few chapters I got caught up in the drama, craziness, and the dysfunction of the characters and their individual stories and their relationship with each other. I found that I did enjoy this read.
    • 4/5
      This could have stood a bit more detail in a few places, and a bit less in others, however unlike some other ' chick lit' about dysfunctional people that I have read, at least this one did not swamp you in prose. The writing was tidy and direct. I also enjoyed the fact that the author put forth her characters with the attitude that no one is really ' normal', 'sane' or completely 'good'. Therefore she didn't try to make up definite excuses as to why each character had their own quirks.
    • 5/5
      I truly enjoyed reading about the disastrous lives of these women. Dorothy - psychotic freak; Clancy Jane - a bit better off than Dorothy; Queenie - the sane housekeeper; Miss Gussie - leading the crew; Violet - possibly the sanest of them all and that isn't saying much; and Bitsy - with Dorothy being her mom, it is a miracle she isn't worse.Good fun!
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Coming up through the generations of the story, I got into it even more!