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Chargement... The Lemon Jelly Cake (1952)par Madeline Smith
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This sweetly sentimental tale about selfishness and selflessness in a small Illinois town in olden times was worth the read. ( ) Eleven-year-old Helene, the daughter of the town doctor, and best friends with Gracie, the town pastor’s daughter, innocently relates the happenings in their small town of Tory, Illinois to her parents. Helene’s mother is famous for her lemon jelly cake, and in the family, is known for her theory that she is stuck in the Tory layer. This is a charming little story of small town life. This light and sweet book, published in 1952, takes place in a small Illinois town in the summer of 1900. Narrated by 11-year old Helene, daughter of the town's doctor, the book is a charming portrait of mid-western small-town life, with its rigid conventions, bitter feuds about cakes (Antha Jones's angel food cake always rose two inches higher than Minnie Overstreets's), iced tea cooled with pond ice, and Antihorse-Thief Picnics. I loved the glimpse of an older and simpler era. The book was sweet -- but perhaps too sweet. My least favorite part about the book was the narrator -- she was drawn to be such a relentless ingenue, and very nearly drove the plot all by herself by blithely blabbing all of her observations to townspeople, so that infidelities were exposed, town gossip and secrets revealed, and vulnerabilities laid bare, while Helene herself remained a naive busybody. It just seemed inartful to me -- my only quibble (but a big one) about what was otherwise a light and enjoyable summer read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A surefire cure for the headaches and stomach upsets of the twenty-first century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the last century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might have been what to serve for dinner or which suit or dress to wear. In this edition, an introduction by longtime Millikin University faculty member and Findlay resident Dan Guillory situates the book and its charming tale firmly in the Central Illinois of 1900. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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