Six of One (Runneymede) [Mass Market Paperback]

Rita Mae Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1979

Welcome to Runneymeade, small town U.S.A>, right smack on the Mason-Dixon line. Home of Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmir, two spirited Southern sisters who cheerfully raise hell--and a matriarchy--together. Home of Fairy Thatcher, political activitist; Fannie Jump Creighton who runs a speakeasy in her mansion; elegant Celeste Chalfonte who kills a man and marries a woman...and a host of other formidable characters. When Celeste's lover goes mad for Celeste's brother, no one bats an eye. In wild, fun-loving, hell-raising Runnymede, everythng makes perfect sense....

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553149792
• ISBN-13: 978-0553149791
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,193,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sister Jane novels-Outfoxed, Hotspur, Full Cry, The Hunt Ball, The Hounds and the Fury, The Tell-Tale Horse, and Hounded to Death-as well as the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries and Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, and The Sand Castle, among many others. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rita Mae Brown at her best!, April 9, 2002

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S. Stinson "book lover" (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six of One (Paperback)

"Six of One" is a rousing tale of two sisters told by Rita Mae Brown in her unapologetic, eccentric Southern style. She introduces us to Julia and Louise Hunsenmeir, fondly known as Juts and Wheezie, an indomitable pair of quarreling sisters born around the turn-of-the-century in Runnymede, Maryland. Spanning almost a century, we watch the madcap life of Juts and Wheezie take them from small tots following their mother around in the local rich lesbian's Georgian mansion to the birth of their own children and the mayhem that follows, to Juts and Wheezie as old cronies, still tangling in their 80's.

The ensemble cast features Cora, their strong and caring single mother, housekeeper of Celeste; the formidable Celeste Chalfonte, a charming lesbian without apology, and her lover, the elegantly beautiful Ramelle Bowman; Fairy Thatcher and Fannie Jump Creighton, ever-scheming schoolchums of Celeste; and in later chapters, Chessie and Pearlie, long-suffering husbands of Juts and Wheezie. These eccentric characters embody all the character flaws and quirks one would expect from a Rita Mae Brown novel depicting Southern characters, and is done as only she can.

Simply put, "Six of One" is a hoot! You'll laugh, cry, and laugh again at the shenanigans of this Runnymede bunch! Don't miss it

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars literature for people, August 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Six of One (Paperback)

IMHO this is the best book that Rita Mae Brown has written. As other reviewers have noted there are hilarious scenes in the book. If the events occurring during the fourth of July parade don't have you falling off your chair, then you're not breathing. Although the book is quite funny, that's not what I enjoy most about it. What makes 6 of 1 so special to me is the way it describes relationships between people. These relationships strike home and appear real rather than fictional. When I looked at 6 of 1 on amazon many of the 'listmania' lists categorized this as literature for lesbians. I disagree, this is literature for everyone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious family saga on the Mason Dixon Line, October 15, 2003

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Peggy Vincent "author and reader" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six of One (Paperback)

As the town of Runneymede is divided by the Mason Dixon Line, so is the family that Rita Mae Brown chronicles through several generations in this, one of her best loved and most popular books. Nobody writes internal family bitchy dialogue better than RMB, and she's off and running at top speed in Six of One. Love and war are nothing when it comes to sibling rivalry in a small town. Cora is the mother of this contentious clan of spirited, cranky, opinionated women. Spanning years from the early 1900s to the 1980s, the book alternates between past tense for the old years and present tense (told in the POV of Nickel, the bisexual daughter of Juts, one of the feuding sisters) for the more modern years.
Wonderful, nearly epic, and very very funny.