Blue-grass and Broadway by Maria Thompson Daviess

Description

Miss Patricia Adair comes from the Blue Grass draped in its best qualities: resourcefulness, charm and a terrifying faith in her own schemes. She needs money, she needs it now, and Broadway, the great spectacular, presents itself as the likeliest orchard. Mr Godfrey Vandeford is Mr Broadway to the cork-tip of his cigar, and the collision of the two is conducted with the speed of a vaudeville act and the warmth of a revival meeting.

Everyone in the book talks faster than anyone should, makes decisions faster still, and is rescued just in time by affection. Beneath the zipper of jokes lies Daviess’ real subject, the eternal American argument between the small town that made you and the city that wants to remake you, and her verdict, delivered with a wink, is that a Kentucky girl and a Broadway man are each other’s best invention. The end of the book folds its scenery with a flourish and sends the reader out humming.

Why this one stays sunny

• Regional comedy written by a Kentuckian who loved her state without flattering it.
• The small-town-into-city plot with real warmth under the wisecracks.
• A heroine whose schemes fail upward into affection.

About This DodaBooks Edition

The full 8 chapters are reset in clean, continuous type with a working index.