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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man Paperback - 2005

by Fannie Flagg

The bestselling author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" pens a hilarious look at life in the South during the '50s. It begins when Daisy Fay is a feisty, lonely 11-year-old, and ends six years later when she's the unlikely winner of the Miss Mississippi contest.


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Hello there . . . my name is Daisy Fay Harper and I was eleven years old yesterday.

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  • Title Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
  • Author Fannie Flagg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition thirthy-eighth e
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2005-09-13
  • ISBN 9780345485601 / 0345485602
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.26 x 0.8 in (20.22 x 13.36 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Fathers and daughters, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005284612
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“A hilarious, endearing novel.”
–Los Angeles Times

“SHEER UNBEATABLE ENTERTAINMENT.”
–Cosmopolitan

“UNFORGETTABLE AND IRRESISTIBLE.”
–Chattanooga Free Press

“SIDE-SPLITTINGLY FUNNY.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer

Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 63

About the author

Fannie Flagg's career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls, and she has not stopped since. At age nineteen she began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote for and appeared on Candid Camera. She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man;Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe;Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; Can't Wait to Get to Heaven; I Still Dream About You; The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion; and The Whole Town's Talking. Flagg's script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Fannie Flagg is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. She lives happily in California and Alabama.
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