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Overview
From a gifted new storyteller comes a warm, funny and endearing tale of life and love off the beaten track. Pat Lloyd has spent her entire life in Kilgore - a small town off the Interstate set amidst the subtle beauty of the rolling hills and sagebrush-covered plains of the West. Known by all the townspeople as intelligent, likeable, and a bit odd, Pat works at her Pop's mercantile and fills the rest of her hours with mail order books and the solitude of day dreams. But just when Pat's existence seems settled, Alma Rose, a charming and vivacious trucker with elaborately tooled cowboy boots and a mouth that gallops ahead of her mind, rumbles off the highway and into Pat's life, changing it forever. Inspired by her passion for Alma Rose and the unforeseen intensity of desire, Pat transforms her life into a startling - and monumental - testament to the power of love. A brilliant debut novel filled with memorable characters and the vibrant spirit of the West, Alma Rose will strike a chord in the heart of every reader.Editorials
Publishers Weekly
With humor and charm, Forbes...weaves the social together with the personal.Library Journal
Curl up on the couch with a cup of hot tea and this book by first novelist Forbes. It's worth reading far into the night for the way it spins out its story with good humor, likable characters, and even a couple of plot twists. Sit back and read about taciturn Pat Lloyd, whose daily routine in Kilgore, the sleepy town off the highway, barely has a ripple in it until a truck driver named Alma Rose bursts onto the scene and focuses her relentless charm and energy on Pat. Soon she wins Pat over, in much the same way that Ann wins over Evelyn in Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart (Naiad Pr., 1985). When Alma stops coming to Kilgore, Pat creates ripples of her own by carving a statue of Alma's likeness into a hillside beside the highway. Showing a special affection for similes, the author writes effortlessly, creating characters that are genuinely warm and believable. Fortunately, she avoids the pitfall of making Peggy Treadwell, the town's voice of morality, into a stereotype. Highly recommended.-- Lisa Nussbaum, Euclid P.L., OhioBook Details
Published
July 1, 1993
Publisher
Seattle : Seal Press, 1993.
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781878067333