The Pecan Man

By Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Book Overview

The Pecan Man is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category.

In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as To Kill a Mockingbird meets The Help.

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483023028
• ISBN13: 9781483023021
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Customer Reviews

Wow

This book was excellent. Fast delivery. A must read. Will keep you in suspense.

Loved It!

I love this book! Great characterizations and a very good period piece about the South. Atticus Finch meet Miss Ora Beckworth! What a wonderful story. It is short but grabs your attention from the very first and keeps you interested. Loved the people and I just felt like I was there with them. I picked this book up and before I knew it I was finished with it. Do yourself a favor and read The Pecan Man.

I loved this book!

The story is told in such an engaging way, holds your attention and makes you want to keep reading. I am looking for other books by this author after reading The Pecan Man.

Book Review

Short book but enjoyed it very much. Good story

Sometimes we'd rather not share the truth...

Cassie Dandridge Selleck is a 'new to me' author. I am very glad to have found her writing of The Pecan Man. The characters grow throughout this book. I love a southern read and this one is right up there! A story about friendship to the fullest, indeed. Old school thinking with love that shines through. We all can learn kindness that Ora Lee Beeckworth's kind heart. Cassie Dandridge Selleck....KEEP WRITING !!!

I fell in love with this audiobook by the end of chapter one! The narrator' voice was a perfect Sout

I loved this book! The story told by Ms. Ora catches you from the beginning. As she tells it she reveals to herself many things about her character that she did not realize before...were her charitable acts done for the recipients, i.e. Blanche or Eddie, or to bluster her own view of herself?