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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1620403013
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9781620403013
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Flying Shoes : a Novel
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336 Pages
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English
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Thrillers / Crime, Contemporary Women, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
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2014
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Fiction
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Hardcover
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Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old--and new--South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it., Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes , is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it., Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact., Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival., "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." - Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite " Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact." - Washington Post "A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness-eccentric friends, freakish weather-and its sadness, too . . . A-." - Entertainment Weekly "Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new." - Associated Press "[A] buzz-worthy debut." - Booklist " Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue." - Shelf Awareness , starred review "Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes , is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it." - Atlanta Journal Constitution, Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue., Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new., "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love knot of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music of her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quite Dell and Lark and Termite "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream-also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring, and brilliance. It is just splendid." -Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl in the Blue Beret, A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness--eccentric friends, freakish weather--and its sadness, too . . . A-., "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." - Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett "I LOVE Mary Byrd. She has so much depth, and is a cracker jack of a woman. Her voice, her language, her passion, and her pain carry her through life with such aplomb." - Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books "What Lisa has accomplished is just astounding. This is a novel of insight, intelligence, wit, humor, pathos and knowing the background, one that is tremendously brave... There must be something in the air in Oxford..." - Bill Cusumano, Nicola's Books "Lisa Howorth is a born storyteller..gifted with the ability to make words dance on the page. Her complexity and humor juxtaposed to the haunting back-tale of loss and guilt..turn Flying Shoes into that best things for a reader, an eloquent, honest, engrossing novel - one that sneaks into the heart and lodges there permanently. I loved it." - Betsy Burton, The King's English Bookshop, "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." - Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite " Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact." - Washington Post "A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness-eccentric friends, freakish weather-and its sadness, too . . . A-." - Entertainment Weekly "Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new." - Associated Press "[A] buzz-worthy debut." - Booklist " Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue." - Shelf Awareness , starred review "Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes , is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it." - Atlanta Journal Constitution "An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters." - Daily Beast "An impressive debut, with heart and soul, in a long tradition of Mississippi writers." - Washington Independent Review of Books "Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face." - The Washingtonian, An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters., Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid., "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love knot of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music of her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream-also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring, and brilliance. It is just splendid." -Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl in the Blue Beret, "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." - Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite "[A] buzz-worthy debut." - Booklist "Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new." - Associated Press, "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." - Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite " Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact." - Washington Post "A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness-eccentric friends, freakish weather-and its sadness, too . . . A-." - Entertainment Weekly "Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new." - Associated Press "[A] buzz-worthy debut." - Booklist " Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue." - Shelf Awareness , starred review "Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes , is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it." - Atlanta Journal Constitution "An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters." - Daily Beast "An impressive debut, with heart and soul, in a long tradition of Mississippi writers." - Washington Independent Review of Books "Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face." - The Washingtonian " Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old-and new-South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it." - Chicago Tribune , Editor's Choice "A very funny novel." - New Yorker, Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face., Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact., Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue., Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old--and new--South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it., "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." -- Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream - also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring and brillance. It is just splendid." -- Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl is the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." -- Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite " Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact." -- Washington Post "A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness--eccentric friends, freakish weather--and its sadness, too . . . A-." -- Entertainment Weekly "Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new." -- Associated Press "[A] buzz-worthy debut." -- Booklist " Flying Shoes , the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes , is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it." -- Atlanta Journal Constitution "An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters." -- Daily Beast "An impressive debut, with heart and soul, in a long tradition of Mississippi writers." -- Washington Independent Review of Books "Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face." -- The Washingtonian " Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old--and new--South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it." -- Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice "A very funny novel." -- New Yorker, "Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival." - Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder "Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream-also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring, and brilliance. It is just splendid." -Bobbie Ann Mason, author of In Country and The Girl in the Blue Beret "Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love knot of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music of her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present." - Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite "[A] buzz-worthy debut." - Booklist, Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love know of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music in her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present.
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From the cofounder of Oxford's legendary Square Books--a stunning debut novel set in Mississippi in 1996, based on the real-life, long-unsolved murder of the author's young stepbrother., Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family-and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post . And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past.
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