Can I read Honey Gal on EtoBox?

Honey Gal by Charles Willeford is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Honey Gal about?

In the mid-1950s, just about every title from Beacon was listed as “First Award Winner” whatever that was. Here, again, we have a cover that has little to do with the text — from this cover, and the title, we’re lead to believe this may be a steamy farm or backwoods tale, when the novel is far, far from that. It is another quirky offering from Willeford about identity, fraud, and lost dreams.The narrator is a middle-aged man in Columbus, Ohio, who works as an accountant at a milk company and is married to a dull wife. In quiet secret, he wrote a novel called No Bed Too High and sold it to the second publisher he mailed it to. He got a $250 advance and publication in hardcover, but the novel did not do too well or make him famous.Still, it’s a way out of this droll life, and the novel encourages him to dream of a new life, and against his wife’s desire, they move to Florida where he tries to write a second novel but nothing is there.He wants out of this life of failure too. he feels like a hel for letting his wife down. He sees an small item in the morning paper about a monestary in Orangeville that will close down due to money matters. he thinks there might be a magazine artic

Author

Charles Willeford

Publisher

Munsey's

Language

EN