Synopsis
Mattie turns on the news and sees that her son has taken two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. As the bizarre drama is covered by the media, Mattie must deal with the results, and with a love for her son that is sorely tested.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-06-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 279 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
The acclaimed author of A Marriage Made At Woodstockdelivers a funny, poignant novel about the complicated love between a mother and her son. When her wayward boy Sonny takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer, Mattie finds herself at the center of a drama that has the whole nation glued to their TV's.
When Mattie turns on the evening news to discover that her wayward son, Sonny, is the top story, she's afraid he might have shot the president and that would be "one little fracas she wouldn't be able to get him out of". It turns out that Sonny has not shot "that nice Mr. Clinton", but instead has taken two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Soon all of Maine and - thanks to CNN - folks across the country and world are glued to their TVs as the bizarre drama plays itself out. This is a memorable story that will make you laugh out loud, but ultimately Cathie Pelletier's gentle understanding of the dignity and pain inherent in the relationship between mother and child will haunt you.
Industry Reviews
"Pelletier...has taken bathos and pathos and turned them into an insightful and graceful novel....Maine's own Stephen King likes Pelletier. If you pick up this novel, you'll like her, too."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Susan Campbell (07/07/1996)
"...Pelletier's writing is full of her usual blend of humor, warmth, and offbeat characters."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Erika Taylor (08/04/1996)
"Pelletier is funnier than ever in this sardonic tale of an upstate Maine mother's love for her underachieving son--even as he's taking hostages in his ex-wife's trailer home and babbling to the press that John Lennon made him do it....[She] hits just the right mix of vulnerability and humor in her latest work, leaving the reader hungry for more."
Shulman
"In another wry comic turn from this author on the citizens of Mattagash, Maine, Sonny Gifford has taken two women hostage in a trailer. His doting mother watches the ensuing media circus on TV, surrounded by her three middle-aged daughters, who hate Sonny. Their caustic comments seem realistic as well as hilarious, but the mother, in all her excessively forgiving love for her son, is so sympathetic that you take her side."
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