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Pretty is as pretty does / by Alison Clement.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.L46 P7 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clement, Alison, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty contestants.
- Beauty contestants--Fiction.
- Farmers' spouses--Fiction.
- Farmers' spouses.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Illinois--Fiction.
- Illinois.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage Pub., [2001]
- Summary:
- Lucy Fooshee is a fish out of water. Living in a small midwestern town where behavior is prescribed and expectations limited, this local beauty queen had pinned her hopes on marriage, only to be disappointed.
- Pretty Is As Pretty Does is an understated black comedy with an unlikely heroine. Bright, funny, mean, egocentric and self-deceiving Lucy understands that beneath her town's culture of politeness there is a willingness to do whatever is necessary to maintain the status quo.
- The arrival of an outsider triggers events which force the town to reveal its bigotry while at the same time teaching Lucy the meaning of real beauty and the transformative power of love and sexuality.
- ISBN:
- 0967370191
- OCLC:
- 47054669
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