{"product_id":"standing-in-the-rainbow-9780345452887","title":"Standing in the Rainbow: Standing in the Rainbow: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eGood news! Fannie's back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \"utterly irresistible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFANNIE FLAGG's writing career began behind the scenes of television's \u003ci\u003eCandid Camera\u003c\/i\u003e and progressed to out-in-front as performer-writer. Her acting achievements led to roles in motion pictures including \u003ci\u003eFive Easy Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e, with Jack Nicholson; \u003ci\u003eStay Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e, with Jeff Bridges and Sally Field; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eCrazy in Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e, with Melanie Griffith. For the theater in New York she did \u003ci\u003ePatio Porch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCome Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean\u003c\/i\u003e, and played the lead role in the Broadway musical \u003ci\u003eThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer first novel, \u003ci\u003eDaisy Fay and the Miracle Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list for ten weeks. Her second, \u003ci\u003eFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e, praised by Harper Lee and Eudora Welty, was on the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e list for thirty-six weeks. It was made into the memorable hit movie \u003ci\u003eFried Green Tomatoes\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates. The screenplay, also written by Flagg, earned her the coveted Scripters Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Screen Award. Her reading of the Random House audiobook received a Grammy nomination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat book gave way to an even bigger hardcover success for \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the World, Baby Girl!, \u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year, which \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"captivating . . . a comic novel to open with open arms.\" Flagg lives in California and in Alabama.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749268979986,"sku":"9780345452887","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30927176-263a-4066-8e9e-394927d77a73.jpg?v=1764074545","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/standing-in-the-rainbow-9780345452887","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}