Helpful Score: 8
A really nicely written book about 3 women who meet as children and remain friends even though one "turns out" and then goes to Hollywood and becomes a famous star, while the other 2 marry their childhood sweethearts and stay in their small town. They are always there for each other. A story of growing up, war, love, and most of all enduring friendship: Whippy Bird, Effa Commander and MayAnna Kovaks (aka Marion Street) - BFF, in today's lingo.
Helpful Score: 5
Definitely my favorite Sandra Dallas book. I loved every minute of this book. I wish it didn't end.
Helpful Score: 4
Follow the lives of May Anna, Buster, Toney, Whippy Bird, Effa Commander and others as they go through life. This is Effa Commander's story in order to set the story straight about May Anna and Buster. This novel contains the deep bonds of friendship, fame, death, heart ache and strenght. It is set in Butte, Montant during the Prohibition-era. Great read.
Helpful Score: 2
I am a fan of Sandra Dallas books, but this one for came up really short. I found it tedious and not very interesting. Written so different than her other books. Hard to believe Sandra Dallas wrote it. S.L.
Helpful Score: 2
I just loved this book about three lifetime girlfriends. A fun, lively story I would recommend to anyone. The book just proves that husbands and boyfriends come and go, but a girlfriend is forever! An easy, fun read. I just ordered another of Sandra Dallas' books. Hope it is as good as this one! Genny
Helpful Score: 2
Loved this book! Different from most of the other Sandra Dallas books I've read but enjoyed the characters, story line... everything.
Helpful Score: 1
A small town girl is discovered and moves to Hollywood to be a star. This story tells of a circle of friends from rural America to the 1940s.
Helpful Score: 1
Sandra Dallas' characters are always so colorful. I've never heard another author name her characters anything like Whippy Bird and Effa Commander. The story line about 3 friends who grow up in Butte, Montana and their adventures before WWII and afterwards is an entertaining one - it made me stay up too late every night to read the next chapter!
Helpful Score: 1
I love Sandra Dallas, this is my second favorite book that she has written. I love the chacater that tells the story. Read it!
Helpful Score: 1
enjoyed the storyline and characters.
Helpful Score: 1
Mystery, humor & a peek at WWII America. Dallas does it again. This is really a story of 2 friends and the small town folks they grew up with. The only thing missing from this book were the quilts.
Helpful Score: 1
Sandra Dallas book are all good. This one is around the Wyoming durring the prohibition and how a young girl becomes a star. The story is told by her friends that she grew up with in a small town.
Helpful Score: 1
Light, easy read. About the "old" days in Montana. By the suthor of "The Persian Pickly Club."
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dusty streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy could set the record straight.
Great fun book!
From the back of the book: In a rich, wonderful novel that reaches from a forgotten rural America to a dazzling Hollywood of the 1940's and 50's, Sandra Dallas spins a moving tale of a circle of friends, a shared past, and an act of violence that shattered innocence forever.
When I first started reading this book, I didnt think it would be as good as it turned out to be. I thought it was just going to be a run of the mill story. But I was fooled. The friendships that are formed in this story are what the story was about, and I became totally immersed in the lives of the characters and the development of their relationships.
Really good read. Down home feel.
I usually love Sandra Dallas's books. Just did not finish this one.
History is in the eye of the beholder!
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dusty streets of Butte, Montana, and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and bertrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
Great story..... liked all or sandra Dallas' books
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dusty streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her 2 best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
"Entertaining...memorable characters bring Prohibition-era Montana to life..."--New York Times Book Review
"Entertaining...memorable characters bring Prohibition-era Montana to life..."--New York Times Book Review
