Southern Discomfort

A General Fiction Novel by Rita Mae Brown

Subgenres:

Southern Fiction,
Literary Fiction

Published 1982

Length 288 pages

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Old money Southern settings with secrets simmering under the surface
Scandalous affairs that upend genteel society
Eccentric, unforgettable characters shaking up tradition

Publisher Description

Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort.

Here is a witty, warm and penetrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama—a world where all is not what it seems.

Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage—until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter.

Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good), Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of emotions caused by her scandalous love.

How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful human drama—an intense and exuberant affair of the heart.

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