Sweet Eyes

by Jonis Agee

Book Overview

In naming Jonis Agee's Bend This Heart one of 1989's Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times said, These odd, original stories, keenly alive with language, make the heart and mind work. Now, Agee makes her hardcover debut with a turbulent love story set in Divinity, Iowa, the closest thing to heaven while you're alive, so why leave town?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517575159
• ISBN13: 9780517575154
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Big, complicated book about small-town life

Jonis Agee is "a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the asmerican landscape" (New York Times Book Review).The main character, Honey Parrish, "not only sees the complex relationships of her town but tells us about them with humor and pathos." (Lawrence Thornton) "Divinity, Iowa is a boisterous traffic jam of human desires and follies, secrets and squabbles. Agee depicts the rural backdrop so keenly that, beneath the noise of her amazing characters, you'll swear you can hear the corn grow." (Susan Dodd)