Texas Lonesome (Harper Monogram) [Mass Market Paperback]

Alice Duncan (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harper Monogram | Publication Date: January 1996

Lovelorn readers of the San Francisco Call turned to "Aunt Emily" for advice about manners and courtship. When Emily von Plotz chanced to meet one of her fans, a wealthy Texan who signed himself "Texas Lonesome, " she discovered he was quite a catch...false claims and all.

"A very clever comedy of manners." --Kathleen Kane, author of "Wishes"

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm) (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006108414X
• ISBN-13: 978-0061084140
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,043,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In an effort to avoid what I knew I should be doing with my life (writing'it sounded so hard), for several years I expressed my creative side by dancing and singing. I belonged to two professional international folk-dance groups. Dancing made for a lousy living, but it was certainly fun. I also sang in a Balkan women's choir. I got to sing the tenor drone, for the most part. My first book, ONE BRIGHT MORNING, was published by HarperMonogram in 1995. What's more, it won the HOLT Medallion for Best First Novel. It was a good start, but my career has been . . . rocky, is the best word for it, I guess. Publishing's a brutal business, but I've got more persistence than brains so the publishing gods haven't killed me yet, although they seem to be trying awfully darned hard, curse them. In September of 1996 my herd of wild dachshunds and I moved from Pasadena, CA, to Roswell, NM, where my mother's family settled fifty years before the aliens crashed. We love it here. No smog, no crowds, no money, but I had no money in California, either, and you don't need so much of it here.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful!, June 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Texas Lonesome (Harper Monogram) (Mass Market Paperback)

Emily von Plotz writes an advice to the lovelorn column in San Francisco. She chances to meet "Texas Lonesome," an unpolished but well-meaning fellow who wants to learn about proper decorum so as to meet a lady to marry and share his wealth with. Emily, of course, decides that she would be the perfect lady... but her well-meaning eccentric reletives (and their dachshunds) always seem to get in the way.

TEXAS LONESOME is absolutely delightful! I loved the dogs ;) I loved the plot twists, the ending escapades, the glimpses of San Francisco, and they way we were reminded that this was 1895--all the little improprities that a reader in 1995 wouldn't think of, like *gasp* sharing the same piece of furniture! the secondary characters were hilarious, and I'd love to see Thomas, the hero's best friend, get a book of his own. There were lots of LOL [laugh out loud] parts in this book, and lots of bits I had to read to my husband--a sure sign of either a very funny or very horrid book; this is definitely funny and not at all horrid. Thanks, Alice!