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Church Social -- Graceful Narration and a Keen Eye Mark Cassandra King’s “The Sunday Wife” -- by Elizabeth A. Doehring - Mobile Register 9/22/02 -- In her second novel, “The Sunday Wife”, Cassandra King evokes with remarkable clarity the double standard of a church in which reverence for the Word is undercut by whispers in side vestibules and conniving backroom tet-a- tets. Dean Lynch has survived two decades of living in a goldfish bowl. Now her Minister husband, Ben, has been reassigned to the tiny town of Crystal Springs...
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Tale compelled 'whether I had a pen in my hand or not' -- 09/21/02 -- By Elizabeth A. Doehring --
Special to the Register -- Sandra King's roots run deep in the Alabama earth. Four generations' worth. As a youngster, King would dash home from Pinckard Elementary School and head straight for the garden. Plucking up carrots and radishes, she would shake off the loose soil, sit down on the ground, and munch away on her afternoon snack. "This was before we knew about DDT," the writer laughs...
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STRONG WOMEN STAY IN THE PICTURE -- Boston Globe - Diane White - September 15, 2002 -- The pile of pop lit books always holds a surprise or two. This time they are all pleasant, three engaging novels narrated by women characters. These women are very different from one another, but each, in her own way, is sharp, observant, thoughtful, self-aware. "The Sunday Wife" by Cassandra King (Hyperion, $23.95) is an intelligent, witty novel, skillfully written...
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People
Magazine September 9 2002 -- Life is miserable for Dean Lynch,
but childhood was so much worse that she tells herself she doesn’t
mind the contempt of her husband, Ben, an arrogant Methodist
minister in a tidy Florida panhandle town.
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Birmingham News (AL) -- STAND BY YOUR MAN -- KING EXPLORES COMPLEXITIES OF CLASS, SEXISM -- September 8, 2002 -- On many street corners and down country lanes in the heart of the Bible Belt stands a church. Within every church, a preacher leads his flock, and behind every man of God stands his helpmate: the preacher's wife. In her insightful second book, "The Sunday Wife," Cassandra King explores...
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BookPage
September 2002 -- Cassandra King new novel, THE SUNDAY WIFE, a tale of a
woman who doesn’t belong in a place where she finds herself and the
like-minded misfits she befriends, is one of those books that keep you up
till three in the morning and make you wake up three hours later to pick
up where you left off.
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Southern Scribe - August 26, 2002 -- The Sunday
Wife by Cassandra King -- Hyperion, 2002, Hardcover $23.95
(389pp) ISBN: 0-7868-6905-4 -- Cassandra King's The Sunday Wife is a
pleasure. In the tradition of Fannie Flagg and Lois Battles, the
author has written a memorable novel about the intrigues of small
town life in the deep south. Dean Lynch, the wife of a Methodist
minister, chaffs at her role as a "Sunday Wife." As the daughter of
itinerant blue-grass musicians who enjoyed drinking, Dean's "white
trash" background has never suited her ambitious...
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Library
Journal August 2002 -- For 20 years Willodean (Dean) Lynch has been molded into, what her
ambitious, upwardly mobile minister husband and his congregation consider
to be the perfect preacher’s wife. Then she meets Augusta Holderfield, a
free spirit who encourages her to break loose. The more her husband and
his too-pious congregants try to smother her, the more liberated Dean
wants to be. Unfortunately she learns the hard way that freedom can come
at a very high price...
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Publishers
Weekly July 15 2002 -- Finely drawn characters and complicated social intrigue make King’s
second novel (after Making Waves in Zion) a charming read. When
Dean Lynch’s ambitious preacher husband, Ben, is assigned to a pulpit in
the small Florida town of Crystal Springs, Dean is resigned to the
prospect of yet another church-owned house and the necessity of putting
aside her own beloved music (she plays the piano and the dulcimer) in
favor of the congregation’s choir. Orphaned as a child, the retiring
Dean has spent 20 years of marriage in the shadow of her overbearing,
charismatic husband, always feeling out of place...
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Booklist,
July 2002 -- Dean and her husband, the Reverend Ben Lynch, have arrived in Crystal
Springs, Florida. Ben is ecstatic because he believes he is finally
working his way up the ecclesiastical ladder with this wealthy Methodist
church, once ministered by his idol. Dean is hesitant, feeling her
low-class roots more than ever, no thanks to Ben's constant reminders. As
he sets out to ingratiate himself, she deals with such concrete matters as
helping with church functions, never really fitting in until she meets
Augusta Holderfield, a vivacious character who could have stepped straight
out of a Truman Capote novel...
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