Plantation Princess from Another Planet

By Louise G. Mann

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965048551
• ISBN13: 9780965048552
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Phoenix Intl Inc
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Southerner finds Plantation Princess a familiar life.

What a great beginning work for Louise Mann! Louise Mann took her her thick brisled paint brush and painted a grand picture of growing up in the south. Planation Princess reaches across a broad spectrum of the deep south and leaves southern readers remembering when, and our more northern cousins wishing they could step back into their childhood and hook a ride on the Southern Express down to the flat fertile land and be a part of a childhood like Louise Mann's that she so vividly remembers. The south is made of it's people, with eccentricities and character unlike any other place on earth. Good memories is what this book celebrates, good because the memories are surrounded by good people; people she loved, people she thought were funny, people she respected and people she was around simply because of her circumstance at the time.And from all of that the mawkish memories flood the page and a great writing talent is born! William Faulkner always said write about what you know. It is apparent that Louise Mann paid attention growing up! Remembering everthing from one-bosomed women to the study of partaking of the "libation," Louise Mann let's us see everything from steel magnolias to the always present good ole boys. Not only did Louise Mann write about these characters and bring them to life in her written word but her illustrator could have been no less than her guardian angel throughout her girlhood. Who else could could create such an artistic view of the told story. Louise Mann's description and illustrator Vicki Hendrix's Art work seem as though they were painted from the same eye. The southern, it is said, has always had a great "sense of place," thank goodness Louise Mann did not forget her's.

Great gift idea for cancer patients

Plantation Princess is a cultural gift to all of us. There is enough pathos, humor and unguarded honesty here to bring tears to the eyes of people raised in the South, and to touch the hearts of the most jaded Yankee. (That would be me, a transplant from Chicago to Memphis and then the Ozarks.) Louise Mann's unflinching treatment of breast cancer captures the brave, in-your-face humor that has become an American phenomenon in radiation therapy rooms all over the country today. If someone you know or love does have breast cancer, this is the perfect gift (right after Bernie Siegel's books). It is also the perfect farewell gift for Yankees moving South. Plantation Princess is "Rebecca Wells meets Erma Bombeck... at the cottin gin."

Plantation Princess is hysterical!

Reading this book was like reliving my childhood. Mann was able to make Aunt Cappy and the one-bosomed ladies so real that I felt like I knew each one personally. This is a must read for anyone longing for the laughter of childhood, and the characters of a small southern town. Wonderful!!

Plantation Princess from Another Planet

Since moving to the South from NYC 10 years ago, I have been discovering wonderful storytellers like Fannie Flag and Rebecca Wells. I have just discovered another in Louise G. Mann. This "little" book of vignettes is a BIG book in humour and poignant stories. With her book Miss Mann was able to make me laugh while telling very touching stories about growing up in the Delta. I read the book in December and recommended it to my Book Club for January. Here are some of the comments from the Book Club's January meeting: "funny, laughed out loud", "story of herself with self-confidence, ddin't follow rules, author willing to reveal things about her childhood that were not accepted in her society", "astounded when someone is in the forest and can see the trees, can recognize was universal when it is not in your world "neighbors borrow breast implants the way they borrow cake pans"", "a slice of southern americana, we are storytellers in the South".Congratulations to Miss Mann on an excellent FIRST. I hope she is busy working on a second book, I can't hardly wait!

Little book with big chuckle

When I saw the cover of Plantation Princess, I knew I was in for a treat. A few good laughs before falling asleep was all I wanted. But I hadn1t counted on staying up rollicking with delight. This charming anecdotal string of belly-laughing stories from some make-believe place in Arkansas has got to be true or it wouldn1t be so funny.The author says it1s fiction but no one could make it up. A man who pees in his pantry? A one-bossomed woman who tosses her silicon prosthetic into the wood pile? You1re in store for a few chuckles that don't wake anybody up and a passle more that will bring everybody in to see what you are up to.It1s a short book. Only ten vignettes. Just a little something to slip into someone1s pocket. It1s a gift book for someone who is traveling, or moving, or just needs a cheery nightcap. Try it yourself. Then get a few more for your friends who1ve left the South.