01702cam a2200337 4500 546841868 TxAuBib 20101127120000.0 020812s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002021977 9780679426158 0679426159 DLC DLC PWmBRO-MBR TxAuBib Flagg, Fannie. Standing in the rainbow : a novel / Fannie Flagg. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2002. 493 p. ; 25 cm. Elmwood Springs ; ; 2 The time is 1946, the town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day.... 20101127. Women in radio broadcasting Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Gospel musicians Fiction. Blind musicians Fiction. Sales personnel Fiction. Missouri Fiction. Humorous fiction. Elmwood Springs ; ; 2. TXWKC