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Waking up in Dixie / Haywood Smith.

Summary:

Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0312609760
  • ISBN: 9780312609764
  • Physical Description: ix, 372 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Subject:
Bankers > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Midlife crisis > Fiction.
Small cities > Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Married people.
Georgia > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Humorous fiction.

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  • 44 of 46 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library FIC SMITH (Text) 36015000340485 Adult Fiction Available -
Richlands Branch Library FIC SMITH (Text) 36015001331145 Adult Fiction Available -

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Summary: Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.