Alamo House

Name: Alamo House
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Bird
ISBN: 9781449802448

Author: Sarah Bird

Narrator: Danielle Ferland

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/14/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Austin native Sarah Bird is a journalist and screenwriter who has authored several novels showcasing humor and insight into human relationships. She pens a zany look at the lives of three sorority sisters at the University of Texas. Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world. "Sophisticated wit ... Endearingly eccentric characters."-Kirkus Reviews

About Sarah Bird

Sarah Bird’s novel, Above the East China Sea, was long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award. A Dobie-Paisano Fellowship helped in researching Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen. Raised in an Air Force family on bases around the world, Sarah is the child of two warriors, a WWII Army nurse and an Air Corps bombardier, who met at a barn dance in North Africa. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on August 20, 2012

What I loved (and love) about this book is that it so goddamn funny. Yes, in a lot of ways it's kind of a revenge fantasy about female nerdettes getting back at a bunch of obnoxious, sexist frat rats. But it is an extremely entertaining read, and I especially loved the parts about the heroine workin......more

Goodreads review by Rob on November 01, 2012

Sarah Bird's wit shines in this rag-tag assembly of characters intent on dignifying the plight of female graduate students surrounded by animal house frat boys and less than noble suitors. Ms. Bird must have lived through the 80s college scene. The crazy characters and "Keep Austin Weird" legacy tha......more