Author:Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg takes us on a journey to a South that only Southerners know, to a time when 'Blue Velvet' was played at the Senior Prom, and into the life of Daisy Fay Harper, a sassy, truth-telling heroine who just can't stay out of trouble. What's more she tells us everything - from what (or who) made her Daddy and Momma split up to what is really stashed in the freezer of the family's malt shop.
Daisy Fay is coming of age in the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach, which is The End of the Road of the South, but a dandy place to meet the locals like hard-drinking Jimmy Snow, former debutante Mrs Dot and Daisy's own Daddy. They're all part of the fun that takes us down home, back to the '50s, and into the best story ever written east of Texas...
Daisy Fay is just as sweet as her favorite movie-munchin' candy, Bit-O-Honey
—— Lisa Cunningham , New York TimesSheer unbeatable entertainment
—— CosmopolitanStrikingly effective
—— The TimesA brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing
—— Sunday TimesImpressive . . . Rutherfurd has indeed embraced all of Russia
—— The Washington PostRusska succeeds where [other books] of trendy Soviet-watching have failed ... Rutherfurd can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat
—— San Francisco ChronicleFast moving ... Rutherfurd believes in adding color and adventure to facts that are exhaustively researched, making history palatable if not delicious
—— Milwaukee Journal SentinelSprawling ... Rutherfurd's close observation of Russia's religious and ethnic diversity gives this epic a distinctive flavor
—— Publishers WeeklyRutherfurd literally personifies history
—— New York Daily News






