Product Description

In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. has organized a bus boycott. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university's first black student. But at little Randolph University, sweltering in the summer heat, life remains dreamily the same. At Kappa House, the sorority sisters talk of who has pinned whom, and whether they can sneak past their housemother so they can party at an out-of-town bar. Even among this privileged group, pretty, popular Kappa sister Maggie Deloach is unquestionably one of the elite...until she commits a single act of defiance and courage that forever alters the way others think of her, and how Maggie thinks of herself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #430065 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-03
• Released on: 2007-07-03
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.02" h x 5.72" w x 8.26" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From AudioFile
Heartbreak Hotel is wonderfully written and splendidly read. Listeners are also treated to several snippets of music ably sung by Bresnahan. In the 1950's a university student's predictable life is deeply shaken when she writes a Civil Rights column for her school newspaper. Narrator Bresnahan excels at each voice in this considerable cast. The listener's attention never wavers from this saga. S.G.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Review
"Anne Rivers Siddons...delivers the goods -- the whole fabulous package -- with every book she writes."

-- Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides

"Marvelously detailed."

-- The New York Times

Ingram
Maggie Deloach, a senior at Alabama's Randolph University, comes of age in 1956 with the help of Hoyt Cunningham, an AP reporter with revolutionary leanings, and Aiken Reed, a sexually advanced Northerner. Reprint.