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Rent Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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Format: Quality Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: May 1997
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $14.00
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Amazon.com Review Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Heurn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "IIt's so much fun being a bad girl!" Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." IIt's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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