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Paula Wall

Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, Paula Wall grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. She majored in environmental science at Austin Peay State University. She worked as an environmentalist, but eventually became a full-time humorist with a nationally syndicated column for Universal Press. She was named 'Humor Columnist of the Year' in 1997 by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and was a semi-finalist for the 1999 Thurber Award.

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Title:

The Rock Orchard

Written by:

Paula Wall 

Read by:

Susan Ericksen 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

7 hours 18 minutes 

Published:

October 01 2005 

Available Date:

October 01 2005 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

1740949323 

APN / ISBN-13:

9781740949323 

Genres:

Fiction; American Fiction; Family Sagas; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 29.95

AUD$ 29.95

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“A wonderfully endearing story of love, life, and change ... Wall's extraordinary and original style is the icing on one very enticing cake.”
Booklist

“Fast, funny and surprisingly fresh.”
Kirkus Reviews

A truly unique love story.

Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby's heart and see his life as if he'd already lived it. Even in death, she continues to shock the citizens of Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and her descendents are doing their best to carry on her legacy. Angela Belle, a haunting and beautiful siren, lures every man she meets into greatness, while her illegitimate and very independent daughter, Dixie, serves tea and vanilla wafers to the statue of the Confederate soldier she believes is her father. But when Charlotte Belle, a woman who would rather spend the night with Jack Daniel's than any man she knows, seduces a stranger in the cemetery, it not only transforms the two people involved but the entire town.

"First-time novelist Paula Wall has created one of the most interesting Southern women since Scartlett O'Hara. Narrator Susan Ericksen brings just the right touch of barbecue smoke and whiskey to the sensual and straighforward Charlotte Belle. While Charlotte's smoldering niece, Angela, enchants the new doctor in town, Charlotte seduces a man of the cloth in the next-door cemetery, or 'rock orchard'. Ericksen at first captures the lazy, humid atmosphere and then quickens the pace as events kick off a double-barreled romance, ending with love triumphing over all."
AudioFile Magazine

“Paula Wall's created a crystalline world so full of one-of-a-kind characters … you can't help but enjoy your visit.”
Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author