A Ballad for Sallie

by Judy Alter

Book Overview

As soon as young widow Sallie McNutt stepped off the stage from Tennessee, her refined manners and proper attire set her apart from the other women of the Half Acre. And it wasn't long before something else sets her apart--someone wanted her dead.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385420765
• ISBN13: 9780385420761
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Not a Mattie

One can not accomplish world records all the time. Each record needs special conditions. Every fragment must come together perfect. But for some reason I sometimes expect the same kind of story to always come from an author who may have had great sucess in the previous book I'd read. I had read Mattie some months ago, I thought it was one of the best stories ever, so I was expecting to much of Sallie. Sallie is a good story however and I can recommend it to anyone. I grew up in a town that had a residentual area just like Lizzie Jones. And I new every boy and girl from that neighborhood as we all went to the same country school. My parents forbid me to go there and associate with any of them. I did anyway cause some of these kids were nice and I had fun playing with them. So it was not difficult for me to relate with Lizzie. I will read J. Alters other books.

N. Texas

Sallie McNutt from Tenn. finds the property she thinks she has inherited, but some others want it for themselves. She has been told her nephew left a lot of debt so the store and mansion would be worthless hoping she would give up and leave. But she finds good friends, (kids) who live across the tracks, and they help her get the property back. If you have already read Mattie as I did you might be disappointed in this book. as the story is some slow with a very unexcited ending.