Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! : A Novel

English

ISBN: 0679426140

EAN: 9780679426141

Category: Fiction / General

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 09/01/1998

Synopsis: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the belovedFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe(and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie). Once again, Flaggs humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Denas exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Denas success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookies a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever Denas cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television Several doctors, all of them taken with--and almost taken in by-Dena There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.

Awards: New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! : A Novel

Illustrated: No

Format: Audio Cassette

Height: 1.46 inches

Width: 6.5 inches

Length: 9.57 inches

Weight: 29.1 oz

Pages: 496