- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Paperbacks; Auflage: Reprint (3. Mai 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060931280
- ISBN-13: 978-0060931285
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 14,2 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (21 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.174.560 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Paradise, a dusty, one-streetlight Oklahoma town without a movie theater, bank, dry cleaners, or supermarket, is ill-named. Jed's Dance Barn and a neighboring town's drive-in are the only entertainment venues, except for the irresistible Big Bucks Bingo, where the poor, like Darla Moon and her relatives, go several times weekly and gamble away their disability and welfare checks. Darla, 28, dreams her seamstress-designer talents will be her ticket out and away from her semiretired hooker mother; her sickly sister, married to a no-good loafer; and her dotty grandmother, who collects invisible frogs, wears a wire hanger on her head as an antenna to receive messages from God, and wraps her legs in newspaper every night to prevent blood cell irradiation. When a hunky, itinerant preacher sends Darla's heart aflutter, it looks like the way out has arrived at last. Then family needs intervene and . . . well, you get the picture, which could show up on picture tubes as one of the more entertaining movies of the week. Whitney Scott
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From Kirkus Reviews
A debut novel whose lurid contentsabortions, fully described child rape, prostitution, alcoholism, explicit sexqualify it as one of the crudest of the season. The storys general emotional monotony is rarely interrupted by moments of absolutely, incredibly delirious sexual ecstasy, a pattern that tends to steal away from the many depravities here any particular significance. Darla Moons mother is an unrepentant, indifferent, and unreservedly cruel prostitute; Darlas grandmother is thinly depicted as a mentally handicapped bingo player; and her sister Rhonda, the victim of juvenile rape as a girl, is a hypochondriac with a fatal brain growth. But plucky Darla herself has somehow pulled through with her spirit intact and her ambitions unthwarted. Shes now a feisty, sexy 28-year-old dressmaker who aims to get out of Paradise, Oklahoma, and realize her dreams as a fashion designer in New York. But all the wife-beating and child-molestingmost of it done by Frank, Rhonda's husbandkeep getting in the way. As a sassy young woman, Darla exists in the center of this unrestrained carnival of depravity and cruelty, registering with a flat line of mechanized, vaguely modulated anger, disgust, or sorrow everything from an outstanding ten-dollar debt to Frank's molestation and impregnation of a 16-year-old and Rhondas odd death on the train tracks outside town. All of this is presumably redeemed by cardboard Elijah, the wise old African-American sage, and the improbable Reverend Spirit Jackson, an Australian with a great bod who brings Darla to climax twice in one night. At the close, a stronger, wiser Darla is at last leaving Spirit and Paradise to launch her career in New York City. A breathtakingly unsubtle performance, lacking any feel for gradations of emotion. No sequel, please. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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It' Friday night, and Momma's going dancing, so I'l be in charge of Rhonda and Granny again. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Last year I started several books and set them aside---until I started reading The Bingo Queens of Paradise. Then I bingoed big time! This book has everything I love in a novel -- believable characters I can identify with, characters who face and deal with problems in life as I try to do, and a story so real I feel like I'm living it. After finishing the book, the wisdom and gentleness of Elijah, the strength of Darla and the wit of granny has remained a part of me. And I plan to read The Bingo Queens of Paradise again, and again and again....
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As I read this novel, I could not help but compare it to those written by Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is and The Honk & Holler Opening Soon). Both authors are Oklahoma residents, and write about people living on the fringe. Like Ms. Letts, Ms. Park also creates vivid characters, although I did not find all of those in "Bingo Queens" quite as developed. However, the interaction between these individuals -- some more empathetic than others -- was believable and engrossing.
The both tragic and inspiring story centers around Darla Moon, daughter of the town whore, and aspiring dress designer, dying to leave the small "town" of Paradise for greener pastures in New York. Darla's courage, independence, loyalty and love for those around her carry her through a series of trials and tribulations.
I agree with at least one of the other reviewers that this novel takes a while to get rolling, although I'm not quite sure why. However, I could barely put it down for the last two-thirds (the first third would generate a less-than-five-stars rating). In fact, part of me wishes that the author would write a sequel, because I'm dying to know how things turn out.
The author is to be commended for her compelling first novel.
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This book started out not so good for me. I was expecting it to be a funny novel for some reason (the title?). But the more I read, the more I enjoyed the storyline, the more my heart went out to those children, and the more it made me appreciate the good life that I've had. Bingo Queens is a "thinker" novel that gets better the further you go, so stick with it. The end makes it worth it!
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Fascinating tale of small-town life...
Although I had a tough time getting started with the Bingo Queens, it grew on me. The prose was rough in parts, brilliant in others. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. März 2000 von Meleriel Riley
Bingo Queens a Big Winner!
"The Bingo Queens of Paradise" kept me up all night! I was totally riveted to the story, I laughed, I wept bitterly and I cheered heartily for Darla! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Januar 2000 von susan wagner
A Lovely Dose of Reality
This book is a cure for all that ails you. Take one dose of reality, one-half dose of dysfunctional families, add a touch of love and the result is a prescription for happiness. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Dezember 1999 von Betsy
grear read. You really get into the characters lives.
Story of a woman, Darla, living in a small town caled Paradise. She does some flashbacks into childhood, often about the wretched life she had. Her life does improve somewhat. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Depressing!
Shame on Ms. Park for perpetuating an Oklahoma stereotype. As a new resident of the state I've found the people to be warm and friendly. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. August 1999 veröffentlicht
An absorbing tale colorfully written
The Bingo Queens of Paradise is a realistic story about the trials and tribulations of a poor family in a small Oklahoma town, with a memorable cast of characters that will make... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. August 1999 veröffentlicht
A metaphor of people trapped in an addictive life style.
In The Bingo Queens of Paradise I encountered characters who made me feel hate, disgust, pity and love. I also had several good laughs. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. August 1999 von Dorothy L. Compton
June Park can write!
Quirky, well-drawn characters inhabit the pages of June Park's first novel. Darla Moon, the protagonist, is trapped in Paradise, Oklahoma, a town that defies its name. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. August 1999 veröffentlicht
An extremely funny, extremely serious book.
I did not expect to like this book. June Park has been a writer friend of mine for years and I've learned a great deal from her, but I knew that we had completely different... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Great characters, great emotions
A superb character study and brilliant mixture of humor and patho
Am 20. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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