Phases of the Moon [Paperback]

Julia Watts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997

Growing up dirt poor in a Kentucky coal mining camp in the 1940s has made Glenda Mooney hungry for everything that life has to offer. She discovers early on the two vital forces that will sustain her throughout her life, music and love... in the arms of a preacher's daughter.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Naiad Pr; 1st edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562801767
• ISBN-13: 978-1562801762
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,893,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Appalachian classic, November 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Phases of the Moon (Paperback)

We take classes at college to have our eyes opened and Julia Watts made my Appalachian lit class worth its tuition. Phases of the Moon is her "serious piece of literature" I guess as it seems to have won awards and stuff. It certainly deserves them. Glenda Mooney is a 50s rockabilly artist and a lesbian working class woman. She is forced to cope with the tenuousness of stardom when she has a child by the King of Rock, the pseudonymous Xagus Peavely (I love Watts's names, I might write a paper about them).

As with all of Watts's books it features great humor (the funniest woman writing today?) and subtly drawn characterizations (though she kills her Little Richard character too soon). I wouldn't start here, but you'll want them all anyway.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Glenda Mooney...whew..., August 9, 2001

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"ladyhoops" (georgetown, de United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Phases of the Moon (Paperback)

After I read Piece of my Heart, i had to find another Julia Watts book. This book is about finding ones self through love, music, friendships, and pain. Glenda Mooney is one fiesty person who has no idea about life beyond the coal mines, but finds out that it isn't what she dreamed it would be...or is it? The true friendships with some of the characters is what made this book a true romance.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic book about the early days of rock and roll., December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Phases of the Moon (Paperback)

This book had been recommended to me and I didn't think I'd like it, but it strikes me as one of the best written and most accurate books about the women who made rockabilly music in the 1950s. I thought it was beautifully done and Glenda Mooney is one of the most real characters in all of recent literature. I can't wait to read Watts's other books.