A Woman Called Fancy [Mass Market Paperback]

Frank Yerby (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Dell Publishing (1975)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000Y5AERA
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,394,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The (Unintentionally) Longest Read I Ever Had, April 1, 2007

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T. Bickley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Woman Called Fancy (Hardcover)

I first began reading this book while visiting a relative over 25 years ago. The visit ended before I could finish the book, and then the relative got rid of the book during a move. Every so often over the years I would search for the book (partially because I wanted to know how it ended, and partially because the memory of reading the book as a child was a particularly poignant one) but to no avail, until I finally found it on Amazon last year. To be honest, the book was not quite as riveting as my imagination had built it up to be over so many years, but it was a solid read, with interesting characters, a strong sense of time and place, and a satisfying ending. It now has a place on my bookshelf, for me -- and for others, to enjoy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Another Yerby soap opera, March 13, 2010

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A. Woman (Greeneville, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Woman Called Fancy (Hardcover)

As you can read here already, the setting is the South in the 1880's. Fancy is an unusual Yerby character in that she's actually interesting and worthwhile. (Yerby usually can't write a decent female protagonist to save his life.) While struggling to make a better life, even if that means bellydancing for backwoods men, Fancy stays true to herself, despite all the talk and rumors from people who don't really know her. She's strong yet tender, resilient and willing to learn from her mistakes. You truly want to root for her, except for one thing. Her inexplicable love and devotion to Court Brantley. Court does NOTHING right. He cheapens her, ridicules her, shames her, doubts her, cheats on her, lies to her, abuses her and abandons her. You just want to reach into the book and shake Fancy while yelling, "Cut him loose and let him sink on his own!" Alas, like too many women in real life, Fancy just keeps taking him back, hoping that one day he'll change. He won't. They're called 'loser' for a reason, honey.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully written book, July 22, 2009

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Yolanda Miller (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Woman Called Fancy (Hardcover)

Frank Yerby outdid himself with "A Woman Called Fancy". I have always wondered if the person who wrote the song "Fancy" had read this book; there are many similarities.

If you like stories about the deep south with intrigue, love and a strong Heronine, this book is for you!