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Summary: This is recommended to everybody!
Review: Ms. Frank has written an excellent book. If you enjoy Pat Conroy, Bret Lott, Ann Rivers Siddon pick this one up. I almost felt like part of the family while reading this book. This is one I had a hard time putting down and actually walked around reading it to get to the end! Great first novel Ms. Frank we need more!
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Summary: A Good-Feeling Women's Book!
Review: Although I found it a bit slow at first, I warmed to this book and its characters soon enough. It's a really sweet, funny, well-written tale of family, personal values, loyalty and love.I truly recommend this book to anyone who knows or has known love.
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Summary: A Gift for 6 Friends!
Review: Under-the-weather. I sent my husband to the library to get me a book. How he picked this one has to be a miracle! I am about to attend the 3rd reunion on Pawley's Island with 6 childhood friends, the "Morningside Girls" from Knoxville, TN. Our roots are in East Tennessee but we love our Low-country sojourns. We are all now 77 years of age. I did an unprecedented thing for me: Came right to your Email address and ordered 7 copies, one for each of us. I read -- no, devoured, this marvelous book laughing and crying and wanting my friends to also experience the joy of reading an author almost half our age who could capture so perfectly the mystery of family relationships that our generation appreciates, evoke the haunting magic of SC Lowcountry, introduce us to the Gullah musical cadence of words that speak love, and at the same time do it with such rip-roaring, hilarious vitality that I am inspired, renewed, and made in one fell swoop a forever admirer of Dorothea Benton Frank. It's the best novel I have read in years! Honesty, humor, history are combined to leave a memorable imprint and make me wish I could do the same thing for my beloved Appalachia!
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Summary: What a talented woman!
Review: What a joy to pick up a novel with such a wonderful story! I couldn't put it down. And such HUMOR! Hope another one is on the way.....
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Summary: Lowcountry Magic
Review: The story of a woman in search of truth and herself, SULLIVAN'S ISLAND is richly written with marvelous characters the reader will be drawn to. You'll laugh with Susan, cry with her, and ache for her. Reading this book is like sitting down to visit with a long lost friend. Ah, but don't you dare rush through SULLIVAN'S ISLAND. It's to be savored like fine Lowcountry chowder. Ms. Benton Frank has a voice all her own and a gift for storytelling. Don't miss SULLIVAN'S ISLAND. I'll be watching for Ms. Benton Frank's next release. If it's half as engaging as this one, she'll have a loyal fan!
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Summary: Sullivan's Island, A Lowcountry Tale
Review: This book is a piece of work that defines all that is the Lowcountry. Having lived in Charleston for a number of years, I find this work humorous, touching, and extremely real. Ms. Frank's work will go down as a classic tale of Lowcountry life
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Summary: A great Read
Review: You don't have to be from South Carolina to like this book - but once you read it you'll wish you were! Dottie Frank's novel is both poignant and humorous. I am anxiously awaiting her next one! T his is the kind of book that made me neglect the housework and cooking, and take a day off from work so I could just sit and read!
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Summary: good clean fun
Review: As a resident of the Island, my curiosity was piqued by this one. I'm a great fan of Pat Conroy so when I saw his review on the jacket I shelled out the 5 bucks. Maybe my own expectations based on the Conroy connection are what caused me to be so disappointed in this novel; there's absolutely none of the poetry or evocative imagery, no real sense of the deep mystery and beauty of the Carolina lowcountry that Conroy captures in his work. OK, so maybe that wasn't the author's point - just an assumption I'd made from the endorsement commentaries. Aside from that, if you're simply looking for a light-n-frothy straightforward read, and you're a fan of the typical Southern Ya-Ya type women literary characters, this is a fine example (but what the heck is up with "'eah"? ). In other words, a good book to fall asleep next to on the beach.
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Summary: A great summer read!
Review: (This is my first review!) I absolutely loved it. Mrs. Frank uses such great description and detail that I was right there with Susan and could see and feel it all. I fell in love with Livvie, and could hear her talk as clearly as if I were right there listening to her. It held my interest from cover to cover.
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Summary: new author-worth reading!
Review: I savored each word in this book. I read it slowly because I hated to see it end. This book had a perfect mix between past and present. How things in our childhood affect our lives. Hard to catogorize in just one way. It's not so much a romance, as it is a story of survival. The heroine in the story has a wonderful sense of humor. You will fall in love with the locale as well. I have never read a story like it and would recommend it to anyone. You will laugh, cry and and feel better about life in general.
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