Standing in the rainbow [sound recording] / by Fannie Flagg.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: 5951-CD | Books on TapePublication details: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2002.Edition: Library edDescription: 13 sound discs (ca. 15 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 073668669X :
- 9780736686693 :
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Adult Audiobook
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Flagg Fan | Available | 33111004500969 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
World War Two has ended, and in the bucolic realms of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, peace has broken out all over. Bobby Smith, ten, is the effervescent son of the well-known radio hostess Neighbor Dorothy, who broadcasts every day from her living room, via the tower in her backyard, to an eager, at times lonely audience. We come to know the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers; a super-salesman everyone likes and trusts who soon sells all of Missouri; and the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground, and the Funeral King. By novel's end, we see how these characters, and many more, deal with the wonders of a changing America, and we wish that we had been there, too, standing in the rainbow with th
Compact disc.
Unabridged.
Read by Kate Reading.
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 dizzingly bright future. The story is one 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.