Miss Undine's Living Room

by James Wilcox

Book Overview

A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her political aspirations thwarted when her ninety-one-year-old Great Uncle L.D. comes under suspicion for murder. Police don't believe that L.D.'s home-care attendant would commit suicide by jumping from a second-floor window -- but Olive, who has heard her uncle demonstrate his excellent memory by reciting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807126993
• ISBN13: 9780807126998
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

The third novel about the bunch of excentric characters living in the fictional, but oh-so-real, Tula Springs, Louisiana. Funny and sad. And very intelligent. Wonderfully written. "Mr. Wilcox has real comic genius. He is a writer to make us all feel hopeful" said Anne Tyler.

Southern Comfort

Imagine yourself at a particles accelerator at CERN.First, assemble the ingredients. Mrs. Olive Mackie, her husband Duane and her teenage son Felix. Uncle L. D., age 91, who depends on various females of this story to keep him going. Dr Martin Bates, student of dentistry, so helpful and charming... Assorted women of the neighborhood, who all went to school together. And, of course, Miss Undine, the retired schoolteacher of them all.Now, mix them all together and accelerate. Gossip and rumors start spinning, congealing into delicious back biting. Wait for it to stop spinning, to see whose life and reputation is still in one piece.A delightful book, full of humor and sharply etched pictures of life in a small southern town.