The Garden Angel

A Novel

Mindy Friddle

Picador

Download Image Mindy Friddle The Garden Angel
Buy it now

Available Formats

Book
In Sans Souci, South Carolina, talk is cheap, real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, to avert the sale of the dilapidated ancestral home. And despite her plucky resolve, all appears to be lost--until she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth, a shy and fragile academic who puts both their fates on a permanent mend.

Connect with the Author

Mindy Friddle

Official Sites

Related Links

Sign Up for
Author Updates

Reviews

Praise for The Garden Angel

"Mindy Friddle has a great comic touch, and her novel is a touching, heartfelt debut." --Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Cutter Johanson is a heroine Eudora Welty would be proud to claim and one few readers will forget. The Garden Angel is a book I did not want to end." --Ron Rash, author of Saints at the River

"Friddle has a way with the comic yet apt image...funny, down-to-earth, and steeped in a sense of place." --The Washington Post

"A beguiling debut novel. Friddle...handles the juxtaposition of two highly eccentric cultures--small-town Southern society and small-college English department--with a light, quirky touch that keeps the story moving along and steadily entertaining." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Back

About the Author

Mindy Friddle

Mindy Friddle is a former newspaper reporter. She received the 2003 South Carolina Fiction Prize and a Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She lives in South Carolina.

Mindy Friddle

© Josh Norris
Mindy Friddle

Official Sites

Related Links

Back

Reading Guide

Organizing a Reading Group

1

Get the Guide

Download PDF
2

Tell Your Friends

Share
3

Find More Books

Go to Website
4

Stay Updated

Sign Up
Back

Buy the Book

Available Formats and Book Details

The Garden Angel
A Novel
Mindy Friddle

Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback
Picador
June 2005
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780312424961
ISBN10: 0312424965
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 304 pages
$15.00
Buy

Hardcover

Learn more about this edition
Hardcover
St. Martin's Press
June 2004
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312326746
ISBN10: 0312326742
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 304 pages
$23.95
Books for Courses Available
Back

From The Publisher

Picador

Latest on Facebook

Latest on Twitter

Back

{ About }

{ Services }

{ Store }

{ Publishers }

Education

Children's

© 2011 Macmillan