Taking Lottie Home: A Novel
by Terry Kay
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When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness. Foster will marry her and father her son. Ben will escort her home. And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until she finally finds the place where she belongs.Tags
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1904 Ben was released from pro baseball, got a job at small store. Lottie, a runnaway had met him on the train. Their lives crossed paths and he swore to her husband before he died he would "take Lottie home." Her son was named little Ben and Big Ben's mother fell in love with him. She ended up taking the train back to the town where Ben was marrying Sally and had a man take him to the church to see Margaret, Ben's mom. She then continued on on the train, never to see her son again.
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Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, show more Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Terry Kay, Terry Kay grew up in Royston, Georgia on a farm that had no electricity. He was an entertainment reporter at the Atlanta Journal where he reviewed over 300 films a year. Needing more money, he took the position as creative director for a television and film development company. That job lasted a year, and he went on to public relations. Kay wrote the bestseller "To Dance with the White Dog," which Kay describes as "more of a translation of what had happened in my family than the creation of a book," and "The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene." Aaron Greene is a shy teenager who works as a mail boy at a bank and whose family could never afford the ten million dollars his captors are demanding. The story tells of the philosophical motives the kidnappers have for this unlikely abduction, which sets off a nationwide frenzy to find this average boy. Terry Kay published 18 books, including a collection of essays, and two children's books. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. He died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Lottie Parker; Foster Lanier; Ben Phelps
- First words
- I cannot say, as fact, this is what happened, or how it happened, yet it is, I believe, fairly close to the truth - truth being what it is, a piecemeal kind of thing best told with enough stretch in it to fit more than one ce... (show all)rtainty.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I am one of those people.
- Blurbers
- Conroy, Pat
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3561 .A885 .T35 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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