Mary Lasswell

Suds in Your Eye (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Life is ripe with good times and plenty of beer when Mrs. Feeley welcomes her new friend, the musical Miss Tinkham, to share her San Diego home and junkyard, Noah's Ark. It's not long before the gourmet culinarian Mrs. Rasmussen moves in, too, and the three elderly ladies bask in their joie de vivre. But the party is cut short when they discover the property taxes have been pocketed by a swindling lawyer. The three wisecracking women must use their collective smarts to raise the money before they lose their home-and maybe fit in a trip to Tijuana if they can earn a little extra. With this first book of Mary Lasswell's to feature the "Arkies," you'll be hard pressed to not grin along with the charm of Lasswell's characters. Go back to the '40s in this authentic piece of Americana and see how the story of your new three favorite ladies begins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Distribution
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504037068
• Artikelnr.: 52276509

Autorenporträt

Mary Lasswell was born in Glasgow in 1905 and raised in Texas. Many of her novels, which enjoyed immense popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, are set in the American Southwest. She is, perhaps, best-known for her series of humorous titles, beginning with Suds in Your Eye, that center around three altruistic, beer-loving elderly women who reside in the San Diego's Noah's Ark junkyard. The series features illustrations by George Price, known for his art in The New Yorker. In 1944, Jack Kirkland adapted Suds in Your Eye into a Broadway play. In addition to her novels, Lasswell wrote editorials for the Houston Chronicle in the 1960s.