Madge's Mobile Home Park: Volume One of the Peavine Chronicles

by Jane F. Hankins

Overview

This hilarious send-up of outlandish Southern characters includes a beautician, a luncheonette waitress, a radio evangelist, the widow of a gas and oil distributror and the residents of a fictional mobile home park in Arkansas as they find uproarious ways to enjoy life, needle each other, and remember the dear-departed. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935166627
Publisher:	Parkhurst Brothers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/08/2012
Series:	The Peavine chronicles ; , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Sculptor and visual artist, Jane F. Hankins of Little Rock, Arkansas, is best known for her ceramic sculptures of colorful senior citizens and gnomes.   One of ten Arkansas women artists included in a juried show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Jane has been a strong presence in the Arkansas artists’ community for over three decades.  A graduate of Arkansas State University, Hankins plans two sequels in the Peavine Chronicles, of which the present book is volume one.  Excerpts from this novel have been produced in a reader's theater production at Arkansas Repertory Theater.  Hankins lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband, the broadcaster Craig O'Neill.
 

Table of Contents

Map Contents Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: Crossing Over Chapter Two: A Dark and Stormy Night Chapter Three: The Moving Theater Chapter Four: Flashbacks and Hot Flashes Chapter Five: A Lunch Stop with Dorine Chapter Six: Curl Up and Dye Beauty Spot Chapter Seven: Pastor Astor and KPEW Radio Chapter Eight: Kristy and Misty, the Party Girls Chapter Nine: AKC Toy Poodles and Dog Outfits Chapter Ten: What a Hoot! Chapter Eleven: Dorine’s Family Enters the Picture Chapter Twelve: The Saga of Marv and Pauline Chapter Thirteen: Denim and Lace Interior Design in Cottage Number Five Chapter Fourteen: Welcome to the Doll Dumas Memorial Bash Chapter Fifteen: Rhonelle Dubois - Former Exotic Dancer Turned Psychic Chapter Sixteen: At the Buffet Line Chapter Seventeen: Emory Ozelle Washington and Sally Lou Evans Chapter Eighteen: Here Are the Brices . . .But where is Christabelle? Chapter Nineteen: An Interlude of Devout Holiness Chapter Twenty: Tammy’s Tappers and the Return of the Prodigal Daughter (Lucille Lepanto) Chapter Twenty-One: And a Good Time Was Had By All Chapter Twenty-Two: A Midnight Visitor at Cottage Number Five Chapter Twenty-Three: The True Confession of Loretta Lepanto Chapter Twenty-Four: On the Road Again . . . Chapter Twenty- Five: The Last Picture Show How Road Signs Became Sculptures that Begat a Novel by Jane F. Hankins Q & A with Author Jane F. Hankins

Editorial Reviews

"We at the Rep heard the laughter that came from a reader's theater based on this book when it was produced on our stage several years ago.  Knowing first-hand how much readers will enjoy it—as our audiences did—gives me a thrill."
 

Bob Hupp

"Everything Jane touches turns into something magical. This novel promises to be one of her most enchanting pieces of art."
 

Cindy and Chip Murphy

"Jane was there for us at the very beginning of the Thea Foundation. What a joy to witness her debut as a novelist.  This is going to be fun!"
 

Founder and Executive Director of the Thea Foundat Paul Leopoulos

"Any similarity between the characters contained in this book and those Jane and I have met over our 40 years together is intentionally accidental.  Say what?"
 

a.k.a. Randy Hankins Craig O'Neill

Now Jane—always witty and original—has taken her inspired style to the printed page.”
 

Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe