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The Honk and Holler opening soon / Billie Letts.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E856 H66 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Letts, Billie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Oklahoma.
- Man-woman relationships--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Restaurants--Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Restaurants.
- Genre:
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Warner Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- The neon sign had seemed appropriate when the Honk and Holler Opening Soon was being built. But twelve years later, the once-busy highway outside Sequoyah, Oklahoma, is little traveled, and "opening soon" is a tired joke. Today the sign is as battered and beaten as the cafe and its owner, Caney Paxton, a Vietnam War veteran who hasn't ventured outside since its opening. The characters who drift in and out of the Honk don't change much: Molly O, a four-times married earth mother who recognizes a wounded spirit when she meets one; Life Halstead, a widower who eats three meals a day in the cafe so he can be near Molly O; Hooks Red Eagle, Soldier Starr, and Quinton Roach, Cherokee veterans of World War II; and Bilbo and Peg Porter - Bilbo steadily puffing his smokes while Peg struggles for breath through her oxygen mask. With Christmas only days away, their lives are to be forever changed with the arrival of Vena Takes Horse, a Crow woman on a quest, and Bui Khanh, a Vietnamese refugee looking for home.
- ISBN:
- 0446521582
- OCLC:
- 38079264
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