- Mass Market Paperback: 585 pages
- Publisher: Jove Books (July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0515131083
- ISBN-13: 978-0515131086
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,077,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Caroline Wimbley Levine always swore she'd never go home again. But now, at her brother's behest, she has returned to South Carolina to see about Mother - only to find that the years have not changed the Queen of Tall Pines Plantation. Miss Lavinia is as maddeningly eccentric as ever - and absolutely will not suffer the questionable advice of her children. This does not surprise Caroline. Nor does the fact that Tall Pines is still brimming with scandals and secrets, betrayals and lies. But she soon discovers that something is different this time around. It lies somewhere in the distance between her and her mother - and in her understanding of what it means to come home...
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About the Author
Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised in South Carolina. She now lives in the New York area with her husband and two children.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book will make you laugh and make you cry, but it will also make you come back for more. If you have not discovered Dorothea Benton Frank yet this is a good place to start and then you will want to read them all.
Format:Hardcover
I was so excited to find this book that would complete my collection, and I was looking forward to its arrival. The book has never arrived. I think it was sent by Media Mail which provides no tracking. Why does anyone bother with this type of mail? The seller graciously credited my account, but that doesn't get me the book I so wanted.
I found the book again on Amazon.uk. I tried to make the purchase, but it would not allow the transaction, I guess because it thinks I have already purchased this 'hard-to-find book' and policy doesn't allow more than one such purchase to be shipped to the United States.
The entire process was unncesssarily frustrating and disappointing. All I wanted was a book to complete my collection.
I found the book again on Amazon.uk. I tried to make the purchase, but it would not allow the transaction, I guess because it thinks I have already purchased this 'hard-to-find book' and policy doesn't allow more than one such purchase to be shipped to the United States.
The entire process was unncesssarily frustrating and disappointing. All I wanted was a book to complete my collection.
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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Suprisingly Engrossing and Entertaining
26 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
This was my first introduction to Dorothea Benton Frank, but it won't be the last book I purchase from her.
This is an endearing and charming tale about a family that is ultimately brought together through a very difficult time. Ms. Frank has the ability to weave humor, folklore, history, and just plan fun throughout the story. I truly found this book to be amazing!
One of my favorite authors is Pat Conroy. I have read all of his books. Ms. Frank seems to share his ability to tell a story and keep his/her audience totally engrossed and comitted to the read.
There are funny, sad, intelligent, nasty, good, sweet, innocent, and centered characters in this book. Ms. Frank has a marvelous ability to bring each character to life and to make the reader feel that this is either someone already known to them or someone you would love to know.
I can't say enough about the beautiful writing that is in this book. I actually cried and am not one to do that freely. So that surprised me a lot. It was worth it. A great author and a great read!
This is an endearing and charming tale about a family that is ultimately brought together through a very difficult time. Ms. Frank has the ability to weave humor, folklore, history, and just plan fun throughout the story. I truly found this book to be amazing!
One of my favorite authors is Pat Conroy. I have read all of his books. Ms. Frank seems to share his ability to tell a story and keep his/her audience totally engrossed and comitted to the read.
There are funny, sad, intelligent, nasty, good, sweet, innocent, and centered characters in this book. Ms. Frank has a marvelous ability to bring each character to life and to make the reader feel that this is either someone already known to them or someone you would love to know.
I can't say enough about the beautiful writing that is in this book. I actually cried and am not one to do that freely. So that surprised me a lot. It was worth it. A great author and a great read!
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Southern Traditions
23 July 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
After returning to the Plantation, Ms Benton Frank really hits her stride with passion and knowledge of the ACE basin in the Gullah Low Country of South Carolina. By mixing life stories from all facets of this particular plantation, the reader is drawn into a comforting fold of Southern Life, making you one of the family. The book is so enjopyable, I felt as if I was a vouyeristic member of the family peeking in on all the secrets.
I read this book AM and PM, and was only dissapointed that it ended. Ms Benton Franks writing is evolving into a much crisper, more joined together style than Sullivan's Island, with a better grasp and flow of the wonderful story of rediscovery of ones true heritage and inner self.
I loved this book, please keep 'em comming!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Auntie Mame, Low Country Style
29 Oct 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Here is a book to hold to your heart, it is that good. And before I even get to the fun, lively and irresistible plot, let me just say that we know on page one that Miss Lavinia, our own Low Country Auntie Mame, has passed away. And yet at the end, when we have finished getting to know her and attend her death and funeral, I was crying like a baby. And I don't cry at books!!
The plot to this book is true to Dotty Frank's genre: displaced Low Country gal comes home, gets mesmerized, and slowly regains her roots. In this case, the woman is Caroline Wimbley Levine, married to a cold and smug psychiatrist, Richard, and living in equally cold luxury in New York with their beloved son Eric.
When Caroline hears from her brother Trip that their mother, Lavinia, is losing her marbles and must be put in assisted living, Caroline grabs Eric and goes home for what she thinks will be for a few days. And there she is caught up in the gullah magic; the Low Country mystique (in which I thoroughly believe, thanks to Dotty's wonderful books) and a chance to become, once again, the "real" Caroline.
This might be the best of the four books Dotty Frank has so-far written. I cannot praise it highly enough. Grab it and lose yourself in a truly wonderful read!
The plot to this book is true to Dotty Frank's genre: displaced Low Country gal comes home, gets mesmerized, and slowly regains her roots. In this case, the woman is Caroline Wimbley Levine, married to a cold and smug psychiatrist, Richard, and living in equally cold luxury in New York with their beloved son Eric.
When Caroline hears from her brother Trip that their mother, Lavinia, is losing her marbles and must be put in assisted living, Caroline grabs Eric and goes home for what she thinks will be for a few days. And there she is caught up in the gullah magic; the Low Country mystique (in which I thoroughly believe, thanks to Dotty's wonderful books) and a chance to become, once again, the "real" Caroline.
This might be the best of the four books Dotty Frank has so-far written. I cannot praise it highly enough. Grab it and lose yourself in a truly wonderful read!
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