Novel w/ female character named Egg?!
Jan Smedh
I can't for the life of me remember where. Anyone?
/JCF Smedh
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Dave Burk
JS> I can't for the life of me remember where. Anyone?
John Irving's _Hotel New Hampshire_ had a character named 'Egg". I
don't remember off hand if the character was a young boy or girl, but
it wouldn't matter.
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Ena Barr-Maloney
which had a fem char called egg; she was of very small stature...
There was a film of the same name with Jodie Foster and Natasha Kinski and Rob Lowe -the book was much better than the film.
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>Subject: Novel w/ female character named Egg?!
>From: sm...@sophocles.algonet.se (Jan Smedh)
>Date: 28 May 1995 11:57:21 +0200
>I have a feeling I've read a novel with a female character named Egg, but
>I can't for the life of me remember where. Anyone?
>/JCF Smedh
>sm...@algonet.se
There are also two *short story* anthologies by the late Thomas Beer:
_Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians_ and
_Mrs Egg and Other Americans_
Beer is pretty obscure these days, but back in the teens and twenties he wrote
stories about the Egg family of Ohio for the Saturday Evening Post. He also
wrote stories about the van Eyck family of New York State. These popular
tales were his bread and butter; Beer was also a "serious" novelist, and wrote
several critically acclaimed (at the time) works of nonfiction, including a
biography of Stephen Crane and a book about the 1890s called _The Mauve
Decade_ (neither of which I've read).
Although they're basically fluff, the Saturday Evening Post stories are fun,
and stylistically quite sophisticated. I recommend them to anyone who can
find them; I first came across the anthologies in libraries, and still haven't
found the 1940s one (Americans) to buy. (Actually, my first exposure was to
one particular Egg story called "Tact", which won a short story prize one year
and which I found in a Bennett Cerf-edited short story collection.) I'm
hoping Beer's stories are rediscovered soon so that they'll be back in print.
Probably not what you were looking for, but I thought I'd put in a plug for
the Egg family.
Pat Bryant pbr...@kumc.wpo.ukans.edu
