Author Description

the Best-selling Author Of Alice's Tulips And Other Popular Novels, Sandra Dallas Exhibits A Well-honed Talent For Evoking The Past. In The Persian Pickle Club, Dallas Transports Listeners To 1930s Kansas, Where A Club Of Quilters Welcomes A New Member—and Then Must Turn To Each Other For Support When A Startling Secret Comes To Light. publishers Weekly this Entertaining Second Novel From The Author Of The Well-received Buster Midnight's Cafe Could Be A Sleeper. Set In Depression-era Kansas And Made Vivid With The Narrator's Humorous Down-home Voice, It's A Story Of Loyalty And Friendship In A Women's Quilting Circle. Young Farm Wife Queenie Bean Tells About The Brief Membership Of A City Girl Named Rita, Whose Boredom With Country Living And Aspirations To Be An Investigative Reporter Lead Her To Unearth Secrets In The Close-knit Group, Called The Persian Pickle Club After A Coveted Paisley Print. Queenie's Desire To Win Rita's Friendship (``we Were Chickens... And Rita Was A Hummingbird'') Clashes With Her Loyalty To The Pickles When Rita Tries To Solve The Murder Of A Member's Husband, In The Process Unearthing Complicated Relationships Among The Women Who Meet Each Week To Quilt And Read Aloud To Each Other. The Result Is A Simple But Endearing Story That Depicts Small-town Eccentricities With Affection And Adds Dazzle With Some Late-breaking Surprises. Dallas Hits All The Right Notes, Combining An Authentic Look At The Social Fabric Of Depression-era Life With A Homespun Suspense Story. Film Rights To Norman Twain Productions; Literary Guild Alternate Selection. (oct.)