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The Wilde sisters dove headfirst into this world on fire with life and expectation. With hair black as midnight and eyes blazing blue, they grow into truly irresistible women. But as well as being blessed with beauty and determination, the Wilde sisters are cursed with equal tastes for mischief and bad men. And both of these appetites always lead to trouble. Love either lifts a woman up or drags her down. When a Wilde woman dies, they don’t have to dig a hole.
On Black Friday in Five Points, Tennessee, Pearl Wilde finds her sister, Kat, in the barn wearing both her favorite shoes and her fiancé. As quick to fury as she is to passion, Pearl leaves town immediately. She returns five years later a sophisticated femme fatale, with her claws sharpened like stainless steel and a demeanor so cool that the townspeople can no longer tell if she even has sweat glands. Slowly and deliberately, Pearl begins her revenge on Kat by captivating all the men of Five Points, but all the while never forgetting the one man who had the power to break her heart.
Wall's second novel (after The Rock Orchard) follows two beautiful, smart, sexually provocative, self-assured sisters whose dalliances captivate their small Southern hometown. Five Points, Tenn., has been brought low by the depression, but the residents retain their interest in the Wilde sisters' feud, which began when Pearl caught her younger sister Kat inappropriately entertaining Bourne Cavanagh, Pearl's fiancé and the heir to a whiskey distillery empire. Pearl disappears and travels the world, sending Kat a tersely worded postcard every month. Sassy and brash Kat stays behind and toys with the town's menfolk, including Mason Hughes, whose wealthy family owns the shirt factory where Kat works. Pearl sashays home after a few years and opens a high-class bordello that caters to the rich and powerful, while Kat continues to entice and evade Mason. Vignettes about secondary characters bog down the momentum, and while some are whimsically entertaining, they are more distracting than narrative-enriching. Fans of Southern women's fiction will forgive the meandering plot and be drawn in by the author's wit. (Apr.)
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Charles Earwood
reviewed The Wilde Women on November 02, 2007
The Wilde Women
"A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited, or aged to perfection." (pg. 180) "The Wilde Women." Paula Wall (2007).
I loved this book, or more to the point'the characters in the book'or, more to a sharper point'the author, Paula Wall. She likes her women strong, as do I. She likes the sexual position of "girl on top," as do I. She likes the dynamic of attraction, as do I. She likes to look at history to get a framework for the present, as do I. She likes alliteration as a writing style, as do I. She understands cadence and gravity and momentum.
Reading about the making of whiskey in Tennessee during prohibition made me want to switch my spirit of choice from tequila to "Old Number 7"; hop in the Batmobile, drive to the Highland Rim near Nashville (that's enough of a direction for me), find this wild woman, sit down at her kitchen table, throw down two shots … and see what happens.
Now isn't that THE definition of a good book? I would have given it five stars except for the abundance of clichés and the "Chit-Lit" ending. Nevertheless, it is a fine piece of work. There is a lot of truth in this story, and it opened my eyes to a question that has been eating at me: Why do women do what they do? Now I know the answer when it comes to mate selection.
Given the choice between a Dickhead and an Idiot'a wild woman will take the DH; and that just makes sense (or cents.)
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