Midnight Lemonade

by Ann Goethe

Book Overview

Called a "symphony" by The New York Times, Ann Goethe's provocative and much-praised first novel makes its trade paperback debut. A woman raised in an isolated Mississippi town and educated in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385308078
• ISBN13: 9780385308076
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Is there a Midnight lemonade-club?

This book is in some ways like The YaYa-book (Rebecca Wells), which I read prior to this one and was not crazy about. They are both set in Louisisana, girls get sent to convent schools because they are rebellious and too difficult to handle, and both deal a lot with catholicism and sin. But, where the YaYas are boring and uninteresting, Midnigt lemonade is not! I really like this book and it made me both cry and laugh. It's a great story in which we follow Katherine from when she's a kid in school to when she marries an older man and becomes the mother of three chilren, and then a little longer. One thing I really like about it is the relationship with her father. When she's a kid, she's the star in his universe and she believes she can do anything cause he tells her so. Then she grows up and her life changes, and as much as she would like to, they can't seem to get that contact again. And this is just one of all the interesting relationships we find it! Family, kids, friends, lovers, husbands, it's all here. Try it and have some quality hours with Midnigt lemonade!

Fantastic ,enjoyable read, especially if you're catholic.

Wonderful book, one of my all time favorites, but where is Ann Goethe now? Been watching for another book by this insightful writer--please tell me she is still writing???

This lemonade is a long, cool treat on a hot southern night

Like lemonade itself, "Midnight Lemonade" is both sweet and sour. There are some moments of stark, sharp-edged truth. A mother's ambivalence toward her responsibility toward her children. How many women out there feel the same way, but choose not to give voice to those feelings. Goethe did in this book. Some of the romantic encounters are a bit much and some of the writing is a bit florid, but all in all this is a book worth looking at, made more interesting by the knowledge that this is a first book. One sees inherent in her writing that she is a master storyteller and has a wonderful sense of humor. Hopefully she will emphasize those two traits in her next work