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Alma Lolloon
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781978410961
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Oct 25 2017
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Experience, though noon auctoritee / Were in this world, is right ynogh for me / To speke of wo that is in marriage... (from Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale)
Alma Lolloon is a career part-time waitress, a five-time widow, and an aspiring novelist with a work-in-progress. Saturday mornings, Alma meets with the knitting ladies at local coffee shops to read her latest chapters. What follows is a sharp-witted, metafictional journey through the red dust of memory, marriage, and the struggle to find one's own voice.
Alma Lolloon is a satirical deconstruction of the literary world, seen through the eyes of a woman who knows about people from behind a diner counter. As Alma recounts her experience with her five husbands, from a soldier drafted to Vietnam to a corporate executive, she must contend with the biting critiques of her own audience, including the pedantic Hattie, who demands a traditional plot where Alma only offers raw experience.
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