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Title: Dairy Queen Days : A Novel by Robert Inman ISBN: 0-316-41837-4 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Delicious!
Comment: When I was a teen-ager, attempts to reduce the number of calories in my diet were often devilishly derailed by soft-serve ice cream from The Dairy Queen.
Robert Inman's new book "Dairy Queen Days" is as tempting a read and as deliciously satisfying.
Joe Pike Moseley is a Methodist minister who is falling from the church's grace as his son, Trout, watches. After Joe Pike leaves his congregation during the Sunday service and roars away on his motorcycle, the bishop sends him to the small church in his hometown. Both the church and the town were built by his grandfather. In Moseley, Ga., Joe Pike is forced to confront the demons of his past. Trout, too, struggles, as he fights to be his own person while constantly being reminded to "remember who you are."
Readers will laugh out loud when Joe Pike Moseley stuns his congregation by comparing Jesus to Elvis Presley, and sympathize with the son, who learns the difficulties of living in a town that bears one's last name.
It's a coming of age story, for both father and son. Joe Pike Moseley must stop running from his past; Trout Moseley must piece together the family puzzle pieces to understand it.
Both father and son find solace in the Dairy Queen, in the forms of chili dogs, ice cream, large chocolate shakes and a summer job.
Readers who enjoy the Southern genre will savor this delicious summer treat.
"Yea, verily," as Joe Pike would say.
Rating: 3
Summary: So-So
Comment: Dairy Queen Days is the southern tale of Joe Pike Mosley and his son Trout who both are struggling to find themselves. Joe Pike Mosley comes from Mosley, Georgia, named after his family. As an adult he became a minister and fled the ways of Mosley Georgia and had a life with his wife Irene and son Trout. When the novel begins, Irene has been sent of to an institution in Atlanta, and Joe Pike and Trout are fending for themselves.
Circumstances arise, causing Joe Pike and Trout to return to Mosley, where they both begin a search for truth in life. The novel is a coming of age story for both father and son, and their small town life. The book did have me craving Dairy Queen and there are a lot of funny, laugh out loud moments. The ending did leave me somewhat unsatisfied, with some abrubt endings and loose ends. I would have liked to understand the characters and why they did certain things a bit better.
Rating: 4
Summary: classic eccentric south
Comment: Robert Inman combines two classic genres in his delightful novel, "Dairy Queen Days": the coming of age story [young Tout Mosely, 16 years old in 1979 Georgia], and southern storytelling [a las Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, etc.].
There is a saying that "In the southern we are proud of our eccentrics. We don't ask, 'Is anyone in your family crazy?" We ask, 'Which side are they on?'" This novel has enough eccentrics [Trout's father, Joe Pike, for one] to keep you chuckling. But you will recognize these people, and the dilemmas they face:growing up; facing mid-life crises; coping with change in society, loss of jobs; death and loss of loved ones; asking "What is my place in my world?"
Robert Inman, a columnist for the Charlotte Observer, has the talent for observation and detail which makes the mill community of Moseley and its inhabitants come alive. You will be entertained and provoked; you will laugh, and you will contemplate these same questions.
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Title: Home Fires Burning : A Novel by Robert Inman ISBN: 0316418145 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Captain Saturday: A Novel by Robert Inman ISBN: 0316089737 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Old Dogs and Children : A Novel Tag: Au of Home Fires Burning and Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman ISBN: 0316419141 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 21 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things Southern by Robert Inman ISBN: 1878086863 Publisher: Down Home Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Eventide by KENT HARUF ISBN: 0375411585 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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