02213cam a2200301 4500 546514376 TxAuBib 20100310120000.0 080222s2007||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2007000121 9780786294374 078629437X KyBuM KyBuM TxAuBib Wallen, Amy. MoonPies and movie stars [large print] / Amy Wallen. Large print ed. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale, 2007. 479 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. A laugh-out-loud romp across America pits a feisty Texas momma against the Hollywood machine Ruby Kincaid is busy these daysrunning her late husband's bowling alley, wrangling her pistol of a sister, and chasing after the two grandchildren her daughter abandoned. When she sees her runaway daughter Violet starring in a TV commercial, there's only one choice and Ruby knows itHollywood or bust. Ruby packs a Winnebago with two friends, two unruly grandkids, and a mondo-size package of MoonPies and hightails it to California to fetch her wayward daughter. In a madcap road trip from the dusty flats of Texas to the glittering aisles of The Price Is Right, Ruby survives with a little pluck and some Texas spunk. Fans of Lorna Landvik and Billie Letts will love this tender and side-splittingly funny story of indomitable spirit and unstoppable force. BACKCOVER: Praise for Amy Wallen and MoonPies and Movie Stars: To read MoonPies and Movie Stars is to take a delightful and exhilarating journey, kind of like being on a tour bus guided by Eudora Welty on speed. Mary Gordon, author of Pearl With a pitch-perfect ear for comic dialogue and a fine sense of the absurd, Amy Wallen writes herself a place on the porch swing of great Southern writing. Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander. 9-12 Medialog, Inc. 20100310. Women travelers Fiction. Recreational vehicles Fiction. Large print. Texas Fiction. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif) Fiction. TXGAI