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| Original Title: | The Pecan Man ASIN B006T8124K |
Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Kindle Edition | Pages: 146 pages Rating: 4.11 | 20888 Users | 1942 Reviews
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The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more truth about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as To Kill a Mockingbird meets The Help.
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| Title | : | The Pecan Man |
| Author | : | Cassie Dandridge Selleck |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 146 pages |
| Published | : | January 3rd 2012 (first published January 1st 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. American. Southern. Audiobook. Book Club. Mystery |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 20888 Users | 1942 ReviewsEvaluate About Books The Pecan Man
A fabulous story! I listened to this one as an Audio and the narrator was fantastic! If you like stories about the South I suggest you listen to this little gem! Thanks to a suggestion from a fellow "Book Club Girls" member I gave this book a try.I'm so happy to hear that there is a second book that is a sequel to this story. I will definitely read it. Cassie Dandridge Sellers tells such a compelling and emotional story that is heart breaking yet also heart warming. If you like Southern Fiction4.5 StarsThe Pecan Man is Cassie Dandridge Sellecks self-published debut novel. Several people, I believe, mentioned that it was part To Kill a Mockingbird with various secondary novels. I can see the comparison, the easy, flowing prose, the narrators, Ora, voice, her style of meandering through days. Honestly, Oras voice reminded far more of the movie version of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Oras voice, to me was very similar to Jessica Tandys / Ninny Threadgoode. The Pecan Man
3.75★At just under 150 pages this is a small gem and perfect reading material during those in between times when you need something that will not make demands on you. As an added bonus I could only find it in audio format which I usually avoid because I get too easily distracted. It was expertly narrated and settled on me like home-style comfort food over a cold rainy weekend. No problem for me at all staying focused or kept in a state of enjoyment. During the 1970s in a small southern town an
I give around 4.3 stars to The Pecan Man, a debut self published novel by Cassie Dandridge Selleck. A native of northern Florida, Dandridge got the ideas for the three main characters in the novel from her Leesburg upbringing. Only 136 pages, the novel, which I have dubbed To Kill a Mockingbird meets A Time to Kill, packs a punch. Ora Lee Beckworth has only been widowed for a little under a year when she hires Eldres Mims to mow her lawn and tend her shrubbery. Beckworth tolerates all people but
A delightful and sometimes heartbreaking tale of friendship, revenge and bigotry. The audio was outstanding.
Dont be fooled by the slender appearance of this novel, it is meaty. It speaks to the time in which it is set, 1976 Mayville, Florida, but it speaks to today just as clearly and it teaches lesson about where we have been and also where we are now.I could not help thinking about all the homeless individuals that crowd our city streets, who are passed by daily and treated like the great unwashed. Beneath each of those faces is a person, an individual, and while some of them might fit the
Rating a 4.5I am glad I did not write up my best books of the year yet....as this one is sure to make the list. Southern literary fiction at it's finest. The Pecan Man tells the story of "Eddie" Mims, the Peecan Man as the kids call him, and what happened that year to him in the summer of 1976. But more importantly, it introduces the wonderful character of Mrs. Ora Lee Beckworth. Ora Lee is recently widowed and hires the Pecan Man to do mowing and gardening around her house a few days a week.
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