The Happy Yellow Car

Rating:
Summary: "Dangled from Her Tongue Like a Spider from a Filament." *
Review: Uncanny--I independently came to the same reminiscence as the writer of the BOOKLIST review. Here is what characterizes THE HAPPY YELLOW CAR: raucous slapstick reminiscent of Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main (Ma and Pa Kettle). But it is also so much more.

Polly Horvath's wordsmithery glows with a warmth that is precisely and charmingly choreographed much like an Astaire and Rogers routine. What adverbs! What picturesque description!

In this "fractured" fairy tale, the wacky Grunt family in depression era, rural Missouri provides a touching opportunity to reflect on the vitality of goalsetting as well as to be thankful for the occasions when you can encounter the Aunt Lollys of the world in print versus in person!

Polly Horvath is so much fun! I'm working my way back to her earlier books while I await the release this year (2005) of a book to be entitled, THE VACATION!

* The simile is Polly Horvath's and occurs
in chapter 5 of THE HAPPY YELLOW CAR.