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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780425193945
ISBN: 0425193942
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: January 06, 2004
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan's Island tells the unforgettable story of one woman's courageous journey toward truth.
Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teenage daughter, and a heart that aches with painful, poignant memories. And as Susan faces her uncertain future, she realizes that she must go back to her past. To the beachfront house where her sister welcomes her with open arms. To the only place she can truly call home.
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Sullivan's Island is the perfect setting for a book, especially when it's written by a native who knows how to create the perfect atmosphere and make the reader feel as if he/she were really there. Dorothea Benton Frank also knows how to build characters and her heroine, Susan, comes alive as a feisty, if somewhat conflicted person who is trying to put her life back together after her husband leaves her for another woman. Susan's family takes center stage, and her sister Maggie is especially supportive as Susan seeks a new direction for her life. The chapters alternate between the present and Susan's growing-up years in a family full of dysfunctional and self-centered adults who never truly nurture their children. Fortunately their housekeeper, Livvie, fills the gap as she tends to Susan and her 5 siblings. This is a wonderful book and one which encourages me to read more of Dorothea Benton Frank's novels.
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Being that I've lived in Charleston, SC for a number of years I thought I'd give Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank a try and I'm so glad I did. I usually go for faster-paced novels such as thrillers and murder mysteries, but I found myself staying up late just to keep reading Sullivan's Island. Sullivan's Island tells the tale of a 40-something woman who was born and raised on Sullivan's Island (an island just north of Charleston) and the story runs parallel to her childhood of when she was a young teenager.
I'm afraid that readers unfamiliar with the area may get a little annoyed with the frequent references to various streets and places that most likely are not familiar enough to the casual reader. As a local I quite enjoyed the references to places I've been and have inspired me to go find the places I'd never heard of.
The story had a little bit of mystery (what or who actually did kill her father?) and a touch of the supernatural (ghosts in mirrors?) along with self-discovery. I highly recommend Sullivan's Island and I look forward to reading more books by Frank.
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it was the first book of hers that i have read,i enjoyed it very much, i got the authors name out of my daily newspaper, about her new book and i love to read books based in the south,, and like James Lee Burke, she made me feel the heat and the humidity, and the wonderful way she builds up her characters, i have since read another of hers and enjoyed it as much,thanks for asking my opinion
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Dorothea Benton Frank's "Sullivan's Island" roped me in to all of her books! Her ability to develop characters you want to know and love (or hate) is amazing. Just when you think you've figured out the plot and where the story is headed, Dot Frank yanks you in a new, unexpected direction. You quickly get caught up in this book, and you feel like you know the women in the story. Be careful, there are some laugh-out-loud moments. (I was reading while on an airplane and giggling to myself to the point that the guy next to me wanted to know if he should get a copy for his wife to read.) I've read several of Dottie Frank's books and heartily recommend all of them but Sullivan's Island remains at the top of my list of favorites.
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I really liked this story, the STORY, not the writing style. Like Plantation, the author gets stuck on one word and uses it obsessively... let me quote from the book (page 18):
'Eah. Great Gullah word, versatile like anything. It means here, yes, right now, do you hear me, isn't it so, don't you agree and just about anything you want it to.
I have heard (okay and used, I still do fall into it easily, truth be told) 'eah a good bit, but not nearly as much as this author does. I grew up in the lowcountry so I'm familar with the dialect. My problem with this author seems to be that she tells wonderful stories, truly. Her downfall is that she forgets to pepper the story with the language and, instead, dumps the whole darn jar of pepper in there.
Plantation had the overused "Yahn" and this was "'eah"... I'm almost looking forward to the next one so I can see what word she picks next *laugh*
Seriously, the story was good, but it feels like the author is trying too hard.
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