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Six of One by Rita Mae Brown
Features
Paperback:
288 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.78 x 9.21 x 6.15
Publisher: Bantam ; (July 6, 1999)
ISBN:
0553380370
Reader Reviews
A hilarious family saga on the Mason Dixon Line, October 15, 2003
Reviewer:
Peggy Vincent
from Oakland, CA
As the town of Runneymede is divided by the Mason Dixon Line, so is the family that Rita Mae Brown chronicles through several generations in this, one of her best loved and most popular books. Nobody writes internal family bitchy dialogue better than RMB, and she's off and running at top speed in Six of One. Love and war are nothing when it comes to sibling rivalry in a small town. Cora is the mother of this contentious clan of spirited, cranky, opinionated women. Spanning years from the early 1900s to the 1980s, the book alternates between past tense for the old years and present tense (told in the POV of Nickel, the bisexual daughter of Juts, one of the feuding sisters) for the more modern years. Wonderful, nearly epic, and very very funny.
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