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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Publication date
January 1, 1993
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780446394574
ISBN-10
0446394572
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$9.99
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Cile decides to leave her Presbyterian minister husband for Drew Williams, her high school sweetheart, who is also married with two children
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Shelby Hearonâs excellent twelfth novel opens, ÂAnd they lived happily ever after.â It ends, ÂOnce upon a time.â The opening and closing lines echo many of the themes of the novel. The book opens with Cile Tate leaving her Presbyterian preacher husband to return to the early love of her life, Drew Williams. The fact that Cile and Drew are both married complicates things, and they have to bring four lives to endings and beginnings.
When Cile decides to leave Eben Tate, she is amazed when he announces her abandonment of him and their two daughters from his pulpit. She doesnât even have a chance to tell the daughters in advance. All this makes Cile a fallen woman in the eyes of the church members and the citizens of Waco, the bastion of Baptist religion in Texas.
The title reflects one of the Baptist tenets that is so often satirized, that hug dancing is a prelude to fornication. Cile and Drew are hug dancing in a serious way. One of the ironies of the book is that Eben Tate Âhug dancesâ with a member of his congregation almost immediately after Cile leaves.
Cile is a friend of Drewâs mother, Lila Beth, who introduces her to her socialite daughter-in-law, Mary Virginia, the mother of Drewâs two teenaged sons. It is through Lila Beth that Cile and Drew resume the love they knew as young people.
The novel begins almost at the end and then twists back and forth over the three months it takes for Cile and Drew, once teenaged hug dancers, to find a way to Âlive happily ever after.â
The book captures the life of Central Texas in the 1990s, Mary Virginiaâs social world in Dallas, and the blackland farm north of Waco and east of the town of West, where the government is planning the supercollider, which of course was abandoned part way through.
When Cile decides to leave Eben Tate, she is amazed when he announces her abandonment of him and their two daughters from his pulpit. She doesnât even have a chance to tell the daughters in advance. All this makes Cile a fallen woman in the eyes of the church members and the citizens of Waco, the bastion of Baptist religion in Texas.
The title reflects one of the Baptist tenets that is so often satirized, that hug dancing is a prelude to fornication. Cile and Drew are hug dancing in a serious way. One of the ironies of the book is that Eben Tate Âhug dancesâ with a member of his congregation almost immediately after Cile leaves.
Cile is a friend of Drewâs mother, Lila Beth, who introduces her to her socialite daughter-in-law, Mary Virginia, the mother of Drewâs two teenaged sons. It is through Lila Beth that Cile and Drew resume the love they knew as young people.
The novel begins almost at the end and then twists back and forth over the three months it takes for Cile and Drew, once teenaged hug dancers, to find a way to Âlive happily ever after.â
The book captures the life of Central Texas in the 1990s, Mary Virginiaâs social world in Dallas, and the blackland farm north of Waco and east of the town of West, where the government is planning the supercollider, which of course was abandoned part way through.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (April 1, 1992)
9781560543602 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Cile Tait, a thirty-two-year-old woman from Waco, Texas, tries to remake her life after a break-up with her Presbyterian preacher-husband and find love with her long-lost high school sweetheart
About: Cile Tait, a thirty-two-year-old woman from Waco, Texas, tries to remake her life after a break-up with her Presbyterian preacher-husband and find love with her long-lost high school sweetheart
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 1, 1991)
9780394586526 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Cile Tait, a thirty-two-year-old woman from Waco, Texas, tries to remake her life after a break-up with her Presbyterian preacher-husband and find love with her long-lost high school sweetheart
About: Cile Tait, a thirty-two-year-old woman from Waco, Texas, tries to remake her life after a break-up with her Presbyterian preacher-husband and find love with her long-lost high school sweetheart
Paperback
With James Ward Lee (other contributor) |
from Texas Christian Univ Pr (June 1, 2006)
9780875653310 | details & prices | 243 pages | 6.00 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Shelby Hearonâs excellent twelfth novel opens, ÂAnd they lived happily ever after.
About: Shelby Hearonâs excellent twelfth novel opens, ÂAnd they lived happily ever after.
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Grand Central Pub (January 1, 1993)
9780446394574 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $9.99
About: Cile decides to leave her Presbyterian minister husband for Drew Williams, her high school sweetheart, who is also married with two children
About: Cile decides to leave her Presbyterian minister husband for Drew Williams, her high school sweetheart, who is also married with two children
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