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Moonpies and Movie Stars
by Amy Wallen

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Publisher Comments:

A laugh-out-loud romp across America pits a feisty Texas momma against the Hollywood machine

Ruby Kincaid is busy these days?running her late husband's bowling alley, wrangling her pistol of a sister, and chasing after the two grandchildren her daughter abandoned. When she sees her runaway daughter Violet starring in a TV commercial, there's only one choice and Ruby knows it?Hollywood or bust. Ruby packs a Winnebago with two friends, two unruly grandkids, and a mondo-size package of MoonPies and hightails it to California to fetch her wayward daughter. In a madcap road trip from the dusty flats of Texas to the glittering aisles of The Price Is Right, Ruby survives with a little pluck and some Texas spunk. Fans of Lorna Landvik and Billie Letts will love this tender and side-splittingly funny story of indomitable spirit and unstoppable force. BACKCOVER: Praise for Amy Wallen and MoonPies and Movie Stars:

?To read MoonPies and Movie Stars is to take a delightful and exhilarating journey, kind of like being on a tour bus guided by Eudora Welty on speed.?

?Mary Gordon, author of Pearl

?With a pitch-perfect ear for comic dialogue and a fine sense of the absurd, Amy Wallen writes herself a place on the porch swing of great Southern writing.?

?Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

Review:

"Wallen's charming, homespun debut follows lovable, resilient widow Ruby Kincaid, a Devine, Tex., bowling alley proprietress and mother to restless Violet, who ran away four years ago and left behind her husband and two rambunctious children, Bunny and Bubbie. It's 1976, Violet's husband is remarrying, and a television commercial featuring long-lost Violet sparks a feverish reaction and a spontaneous recovery mission to L.A. for Ruby and her sassy sister, Loralva. Dismissing the townsfolk's warning that, in California, she'll end up 'with transvestites licking her ear and stealing her dresses,' Violet's outspoken mother-in-law, Imogene, joins the journey, but her focus is more on becoming an audience member on The Price Is Right. Surviving truck stops, tacky motels and minor domestic chaos, the trio begin their hilarious culture clash with the locals on Hollywood Boulevard. The much-anticipated game show appearance becomes a windfall, but will Ruby have the same luck locating Violet? Though the antics feel forced at times, Wallen's bighearted confection rounds itself out with a bittersweet zinger of a conclusion. (Jan.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Review:

"I grew up around Southern women. They had names like Betty Lou and Jeannie Mae and Lavonne, and while they had outgoing personalities, I must now conclude they were lacking in color. They never, to the best of my knowledge, wore bowling shoes to go swimming, nor did they throw parties to celebrate the weddings of soap-opera characters. They never put on ostrich-hide cowboy boots or wore their hair..." Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)

Synopsis:

This laugh-out-loud romp across America pits a feisty Texas momma against theHollywood machine.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780670038176
Author:
Wallen, Amy
Publisher:
Viking Books
Author:
Wallen, Amy
Subject:
Humorous
Subject:
Women travelers
Subject:
Female friendship
Publication Date:
January 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
308
Dimensions:
8.46x5.84x1.06 in. .97 lbs.