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Babs H. Deal (1929–2004)

Autore di The Walls Came Tumbling Down

15+ opere 113 membri 2 recensioni

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Opere di Babs H. Deal

The crystal mouse (1973) 12 copie
High Lonesome World (1969) 10 copie
The Reason for Roses (1974) 4 copie
Friendship's Secret BS (1980) 3 copie
Fancy's Knell (1966) 3 copie
Night Story (1965) 3 copie
Goodnight Ladies (1978) 3 copie
The Grail. 1 copia
Summer games (1972) 1 copia

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Best Detective Stories of the Year: 16th Annual Collection (1961) — Collaboratore — 11 copie

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The Walls Came Tumbling Down is very much a late 1960s book. In the beginning I wasn't sure I would get into it or even like it. It is the story of seven sorority sisters still living in the same small town, still friends as adults. Their friendships are tested when a skeleton of an infant is found in a wall of their sorority house. An investigation would prove the baby was hidden during a renovation that happened during a summer when only those same seven young women were living in the house - twenty-four years earlier. The majority of Deal's book is filled with busybody gossip, small town snobbery and the uncovering of many secrets besides a hidden pregnancy and birth. Adulterous affairs, the inability to trust one another, and the growing suspicions and prejudices are all brought to light when literally and figuratively, the walls come down.… (altro)
½
 
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SeriousGrace | Dec 28, 2009 |
A Southern coming-of-age novel. I don't like any of Deal's other books at all, but this one is wonderful. Complex, intense, full of real characters and real feeling.
 
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annelwatson | Aug 22, 2008 |

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Opere
15
Opere correlate
1
Utenti
113
Popolarità
#173,161
Voto
½ 3.6
Recensioni
2
ISBN
16
Lingue
1

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