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Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home
Author: Bailey White
The bestselling author of Mama Makes Up Her Mind reads her all-new collection. It is still a comfort to come back from traveling, with my random memories like a display in some Victorian museum of miscellany, to a home full of people whose lives I know so well I can tell the story of every missing finger and call every old lady...  more » Bailey White's colorful slices of eccentric Southern life have long delighted listeners of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, on which she is a regular commentator. Now, in Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, her first collection since the ABBY-nominated Mama Makes Up Her Mind, she explores how places everywhere affect our lives, from her humid hometown in Georgia to a one-room school in Vermont. Fans old and new will delight in Bailey White's tour of mansions with leaky roofs, hot springs, and "the kind of dreams you dream at the Starlite Motel." She takes us on adventures as mild as drinking tea with the Rose Queen of 1931 and as risky as deciding to teach first grade. She introduces us to her cousin Mandon, who wants to reunite the family's far-flung Chippendale chairs, and she tries to explain how, when she was assigned to computer training, she ended up at the dog track. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching, Bailey White's readings of her unabridged stories are always rich with perception and grace.
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ISBN-13: 9780201626704
ISBN-10: 0201626705
Publication Date: 5/1995
Pages: 238
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 30 ratings
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Lots of fun, sometimes poignant, often thought provoking. Nice to take with you for reading in spare moments.
reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Bailey White is a wonderful Southern writer. She tells great stories.
reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 63 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A quick, fun read.
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A collection of clever essays by NPR contributor Bailey White.
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Typical Bailey White: hilarious stories about the South. If you have read Mama Makes Up Her Mind, you know what I mean. Poignant, side-splitting, wise. Any fan of Southern fiction has to get to know Bailey White!
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Classic Bailey White! Really enjoyable and highly recommended. A must-have for Bailey White fans!
reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 49 more book reviews
This book is a compilation of columns the author wrote for NPR. I love the stories regarding going to live with an eccentric older relative.
reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 27 more book reviews
A very good read.
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Just couldn't get through this audio book.
reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 98 more book reviews
Read by the author in her lovely Southern drawl.
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Love Bailey White's view of the world! These short stories are little gems, to be savored like a box of chocolates, slowly and one at a time!
moondance120 avatar reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 422 more book reviews
A floow up to MAMA MAKES UP HER MIND. Quirky neighbors and even odder relatives. Quick, fun read. 3 stars
carmenm avatar reviewed Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home on + 9 more book reviews
Funny and perhaps a little too close to home! :)


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