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by Sandra Dallas

Author:

Sandra Dallas

ISBN13:

978-0312147013

ISBN:

0312147015

Language:

English

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition (September 15, 1996)

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Fiction

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Genre Fiction

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1589 kb

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4.8

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Award-winning author Sandra Dallas was dubbed "a quintessential American voice" by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. She is the author of The Bride's House, Whiter Than Snow, Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass, among others. She is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award and the two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.

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A neighbor offered Dad a dollar for a day’s labor. Dad worked so hard, he finished by noon and was paid just four bits, the only money my parents saw all season. In our family, that was known as the. The rest of The Persian Pickle Club is fiction. Like the scraps of a quilt, the elements of this book came from friends. MoreLess Show More Show Less.

Sandra Dallas graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in journalism and began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. Библиографические данные.

In The Persian Pickle Club, Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a. .A colorful exploration of Depression-era Kansas and the meaning of friendship.

In The Persian Pickle Club, Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a new member'and then must turn to each other for support when a startling secret comes to light.

Sandra Dallas is the author of seven novels, including The Persian Pickle Club and New Mercies. She is a former Denver bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine and lives in Denver, Colorado. The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories: Pioneering Women of the West. Larry D Sweazy, Candace Simar, Sandra Dallas. Paisley will never be the same again. com User, February 12, 2001. My second venture into the writing of Sandra Dallas took me to Harleyville, Kansas, again in the depression era, and into the lives of the farm community there with its tightly knit quitting club.

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Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "The Persian Pickle Club" для чтения в офлайн-режиме. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another.

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another. In her magical, memorable novel, Sandra Dallas explores the ties that unite women through good times and bad.

Androrim

My book club picked this read otherwise I might not have ever picked it up because I probably wouldn't have even known it was out there, despite the fact that it was publised ten years ago.

Good thing I had a chance to read it. It's outside my usual preferred genre, but that didn't matter. The book is a heartfelt tale of the friendship between women in small town Kansas in the 1930's. There is something special and different between the bonds of women than men and this novel beautifully illustrates it.

The tone is right. The individual personalities of the women distinct. The way they feel about each other, complicated. What they'll do to protect one of their own, priceless.

While it doesn't make me wish to take up quilting, it does impress me to develop my own Persian Pickle Club with the remarkable women who surround me.

Be aware there are some raw themes in this book: barreness, unwed mothers, attempted rape, and murder, to name a few. But they aren't graphic and are brought in as plot points of interest to move the story along.

Worth the read.

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Set in the Dust Bowl era, a group of small town Kansas women meet weekly as the Persian Pickle Club to quilt and gossip . The women know everything about each other and are there to support each other through joys and sorrows. Queenie Bean is the youngest member and tells the story.

When the Ritters' son Tom loses his job in the city, he comes home to work on the family farm and brings his beautiful city-girl wife, Rita, with him. As "the Pickles" teach Rita about quilting, she also learns about the families and life on the farm. To support a home for unwed mothers, the women make and quilt a Celebrity Quilt, with signatures of famous people. When the Persian Pickle Club auctions off the quilt, Rita gets the story published in the Topeka newspaper. This enhances her plan to become a famous reporter, so she and Tom can get back to the city. After the body of a local man is found, Rita determines to solve the mystery, believing it will be the start of her career. She doesn't know how her persistence will affect the whole community.

A clever plotline and memorable characters make this Sandra Dallas novel a winner. Dallas plucks a little segment of life in the Dust Bowl in rural America and plants it in our hearts. These women and their friendships reflect the powerful relationships formed in small towns and small groups wherever they are found.

Fawrindhga

Let me say first that Sandra Dallas is one of my favorite author's and I don't think I've ever read one of her books that I didn't enjoy. Some better than others and this one was not one of my favorites. I'm 73 years old and most of my people came from small country towns in Texas so I relate w/the people in her stories as well as the time lines for most. My Grandmother was a quilter and my cousins and I used to lay in bed and look at the patterns on Grandma's quilts and recall our dresses; etc that were used in the quilts from the material scraps passed on to Grandmother from our dresses. To me this book seemed like page after page of gossip - however I really liked the way the book ended and the message of the book. I'll continue to read Sandra's books and I still think that she is one of the best writers of this era.

Kabandis

As a hook, the title is sufficiently intriguing to entice readers to this book. The "Persian Pickle" is Kansas jargon for the paisley pattern; a piece of paisley fabric is cherished there by a group of women who regularly get together to make quilts, just as their mothers had done before them and they expect their own daughters to do in turn. This is a short book dense with emotion and import. The characterizations are excellent and the writing is lyrical. The Pickle ladies do more than quilt, of course, they comfort and support one another through all of life's vageries. Since the story is set during the Depression, there are plenty of tough times for them to rise above and, in fact, they accept those hardships with grace. When the bride of a local farmer's son joins them, their insularity and unthinking acceptance of their community's rhythms gets held up for examination through her far more worldly eyes. The picture painted by Sandra Dallas is a detailed one of life on the prairie at the beginning of modern times. The women are real enough to feel like a reader's friends, and the book--and the relationship--ends much too quickly. But the story has been told, the secret the ladies shared revealed. In the greatest tribute to any author, the tale lingers on in the mind of her reader. And in the process, Dallas' readers even learn quite a bit about the fine art of quilting!

Malogamand

The book is thought provoking. It makes you want to have friends who lift you up and friendships so strong that you never question they will be there for you as you would be for them. Simple but good story. I would recommend...definitely.

Araath

Character development was well done. Unexpected turns in the story keeps the reader intrigued. What starts out as a simple straight forward story takes a turn and becomes a mystery to be solved. Surprises all around.

Topmen

This really made me wish I lived there, with these good people, back then! Well written book about well-meaning people who helped and really cared for each other during difficult times. Enjoyable!

An excellent author will lead you to their other novels, as Ms. Dallas did for me.

The Persian Pickle Club is a 1930 depression era quilt club, but the soul of the club are the women of the town in Harveyville, Kansas. The club is a friendship foundation, support group and charity network that goes beyond these implications. We are allowed an extremely poignant glimpse into the lives of these women, and the unique pecking order, so to speak that has been established within the context of the club.
While somewhat annoying, certain characters that make up the group will certainly grate on your tolerance. But a subtle understanding is promoted as one continues to unravel the secrets and relationships that the group protects. Friendships within the group mean everything to these women, and the sacrifices they go through on behalf of each other is truly wonderful.

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