Bingo

by Rita Mae Brown

Paper Book, 1989

LCC

PS3552.R698B56 1989b

Status

Available

Call number

PS3552.R698B56 1989b

Publication

New York : Bantam Books, 1989, ©1988.

Description

In the sequel to her beloved Six of One, Rita Mae Brown returns with another witty tale of passion and rivalry in the small Southern town of Runnymede, Maryland. Newspaper editor Nickel Smith is scrambling to save the local paper from corporate extinction, even as she is engaged in an affair that would shock the town as much as it amazes Nickel herself. Meanwhile, her mother, Julia, and her aunt Louise, the infamous Hunsenmeir sisters, who've set the town on its ears for decades, keep an eagle eye on Nickel. No matter that she's a grown woman and that they're going on ninety; they need someone to gossip about! Not even the town's weekly bingo games can keep Louise and Julia out of trouble when Ed Tutweiler Walters, an eligible newcomer, arrives in town--and has the sisters fighting over him like schoolgirls. A telling look at the foibles of modern relationships, Bingo is full of wisdom about the comforts, trials, and absurdities of small-town life and especially of our own nearest and dearest.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member shelley582
Sequel to Six of One. Highly recommended. Six of One is probably on my top ten books of all time and I loved this return to the characters.
LibraryThing member tealover
Well, the Hunsenmeir sister (Louise and Julia ) did it again! Part two of the tale of two sisters living in Runnymade, a town split apart by the Mason - Dixon Line. Much older but none the wiser, these two 'funny old birds' still need a referee to keep them from catfighting.
As usual, Nickel
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(Julia's daughter) is trying to keep these two out of each others hair and out oft her social live - which is practically nonexistend, since she's an acclaimed lesbian and in Runnymade that's about as sinful as it get get.... Bingo is the sequel of my all time favourite 'Six of One'.
Six of one
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LibraryThing member shelleyraec
Not in the same leauge as Six for One which was priceless but an entertaining read all the same. The only thing that bugged me is how Nickel went from architecture (in Six of One) to a newspaper reporter iwth a whole lot of tradition behind it unmentioned previously,

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1988)

Language

Original publication date

1988

Physical description

x, 370 p.; 18 inches

ISBN

0553282204 / 9780553282207
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