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    Big Stone Gap: A Novel
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    Big Stone Gap: A Novel

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman

    Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the small town of Big Stone Gap, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and the story of its self-proclaimed spinster, Ave Maria Mulligan. In the series' enchanting debut, Ave Maria reaches her thirty-fifth year and resigns herself to the single life, filling her days with hard work, fun friends, and good books. Then, one fateful day, Ave Maria's past opens wide with the revelation of a long-buried secret that will alter the course of her life. Before she knows it, Ave Maria is fielding marriage proposals, trying to claim her rightful inheritance, and planning the trip of a lifetime to Italy-one that will change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Full of wit and wonder, hilarity and heart, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book, and one that you will share with friends and family for years to come.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780739300565
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    Big Stone Gap: A Novel

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    • 2/5
      2.5 Ave Maria came across as a b**** in this one. I was quite displeased.
    • 3/5
      This is the story of Ava Maria McChesney and her life in the small town of Big Stone Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Ava Maria has lived in Big Stone Gap her entire life. She married Jack Chesney later in life and had two children: Joe who died at four, and Etta who's just married and is living in Italy with her new husband in Italy. This is a warm story about family and friendships, and the lessons we learn about love and letting go if we live long enough.
    • 2/5
      Big Stone Gap is in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney lives with her husband , her only daughter having married and moved to Italy.
    • 2/5
      Didn't have the luster of the other books in the series for me. I'm kind of sick of Ave Maria by now.
    • 3/5
      This was like putting on an old favorite sweatshirt - I had read the three previous Stone Gap books years ago, and right away I felt at home with the characters, the setting. I enjoyed it but did not feel overly impressed.
    • 4/5
      The original Big Stone Gap is still the best in this series, but this sentimental fourth installment was perfect for a winter solstice read by the fireside. I love Trigiani's insights about relationships and her character's emotional temperament. She makes an Appalachian small town come to life with people we care about.
    • 5/5
      Adriana Trigiani has kept up the high quality of her writing in this, the fourth book in the Big Stone Gap series. Even after twenty years of marriage, Ave Maria is finding that you still have to work at your relationship to your husband--you can't just coast and keep a vibrant love going. And she experiences other sides to friendships and the importance of making judgements about your friends.
    • 3/5
      Book on CD read by Cassandra Campbell

      Trigiani takes the reader back to Big Stone Gap for the continuing story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family (book #4 in the Big Stone Gap series). Ave Maria is feeling a little down because her daughter has gotten married and moved to Italy. Then a stranger comes to town and this results in a break between Ave Maria and Iva Lou. Add to this the stress of Jack Mac’s health problems and the arrival in town of a coal company that plans to employ mountaintop removal and it’s no wonder Ave Maria is feeling out of sorts. On the other hand there is plenty to celebrate – a wedding, a community theatre production, Christmas, and a dream trip to Scotland. It’s an entertaining novel that shows the ups and downs of life and the importance of family, friends, and a place to call home. Campbell does a fine job on the audio. She has a good pace and enough skill with various voices to differentiate the many characters.
    • 2/5
      Drawn to the cover on the thrift store shelf, I stood there and read a couple of pages. It passed the test, so I bought it. As it turns out, this is number four in a series. And apparently, not a series that works too well stepping smack into the middle of. Too many characters with too much backstory both implied and hurriedly trying to catch the reader up with. (Amn’t I a great review writer – two sentences in a row ending with prepositions!) There was good depth to the main characters, a married couple, but otherwise, too many straggling story lines that belonged to the series as a whole. It is not a series that I’ll continue with, though bits and pieces of this particular book were enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the other books in the series a bit more than this one, but still a fun read with great characters with great dialog.