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Beaming Sonny Home

A Novel

Cathie Pelletier

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English
Sourcebooks, Inc
01 July 2014
"""The sharp-tongued Mattie...is one of Pelletier's most sublime creations.""-Booklist

Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling."
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Imprint:   Sourcebooks, Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Reprint
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   295g
ISBN:   9781402294969
ISBN 10:   1402294964
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Cathie Pelletier is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including The Funeral Makers (New York Times Book Review Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize). As K. C. McKinnon, she has written two novels, both of which became television films. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.

Reviews for Beaming Sonny Home: A Novel

Hilarious...Another wry comic turn from Cathie Pelletier. - The New Yorker A small marvel of a book... Mattie is the most touching, funny, and drily astute heroine to come along since the irresistible eccentrics of Eudora Welty. - Newsday It is Pelletier's gift to be able to coax the drama from stony ground without artifice or sentimentality. - Boston Globe


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